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Keary

About 684 American babies have been named Keary since 1949, most of them around 1974. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2004. About 590 Kearys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Keary boys named Keary

By the numbers

Total US births
684
Estimated living today
590
Median age today
52
Peak year
1974
Best rank
1,520th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1949
Girls / boys
104 / 580

How old the living Kearys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 684 babies given the name since 1949, about 590 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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.

Where Keary is most common

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

Names of 1974

The most popular boys’ names the year Keary peaked:

All the names of 1974

Related names

Keary 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.