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Keagan vs Keagen

American parents have registered 10,541 Keagans since 1880, against 1,069 Keagens. Keagan is still ahead, with 134 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keagan against Keagen, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keagan Keagen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Keagan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Keagan had 291 and Keagen had 49.

Side by side

  Keagan Keagen
Total US births 10,5411,069
Most in one year 65890
Babies in 2025 134under 5
Estimated living today 10,0001,100
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 489th boys1,692nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,609thunranked
First recorded 19771992
Girls / boys 1,757 / 8,78422 / 1,047

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keagan and Keagen.