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Keelan

Keelan is a boy's name that peaked in 2014, when it was the 1,306th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,451st. About 3,900 Keelans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Keelan boys named Keelan

By the numbers

Total US births
3,942
Estimated living today
3,900
Median age today
17
Peak year
2014
Best rank
1,306th
Rank in 2025
2,451st
First recorded
1967
Girls / boys
351 / 3,591

How old the living Keelans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,942 babies given the name since 1967, about 3,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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 Keelan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Keelan is most concentrated in Tennessee (4.2×), Louisiana (3.6×), Florida (3.4×), Texas (3.3×).

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

Names of 2014

The most popular boys’ names the year Keelan peaked:

All the names of 2014

Keelan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Keelan 1,686 286th
Ireland boys Keelan 1,049 135th
Northern Ireland boys Keelan 247 111th
France boys Keelan 160 2,152nd
Scotland boys Keelan 83 259th
Ireland girls Keelan 22 523rd
England and Wales girls Keelan 6 5,545th

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.

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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.