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Keane

Keane is a boy's name that peaked in 2007, when it was the 2,213th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 1,400 Keanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Keane

By the numbers

Total US births
1,486
Estimated living today
1,400
Median age today
21
Peak year
2007
Best rank
2,213th
Rank in 2025
6,803rd
First recorded
1950

How old the living Keanes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,486 babies given the name since 1950, about 1,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 560 of them are children and 20 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Keanes

People named Keane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Keane is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Keane is most concentrated in California (8.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Keane peaked:

All the names of 2007

Keane elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Keane 1,002 213th
Ireland boys Keane 138 224th
France boys Keane +1 spelling 105 1,661st
Scotland boys Keane 39 241st
France girls Keane +1 spelling 15 4,640th
Belgium boys Keane 10 1,207th
Northern Ireland boys Keane 3 403rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Keane: rank by region

In 2005, Keane was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Keane 792 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Keane against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.