Keeley
About 6,741 American babies have been named Keeley since 1957, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 1,561st. About 6,600 Keeleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Keeley boys named Keeley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,741
- Estimated living today
- 6,600
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 1,041st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,561st
- First recorded
- 1957
- Girls / boys
- 6,692 / 49
How old the living Keeleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,741 babies given the name since 1957, about 6,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 the name comes from
Origin a surname
Reduced Anglicized from Irish Ó Caollaidhe (“descendant of Caollaidhe”), a personal name based on the adjective caol (“slender, graceful”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Keeleys
- Keeley Hawes (born 1976)British actress
- Keeley Hazell (born 1986)English model
People named Keeley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Keeley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Keeley is most concentrated in Tennessee (2.2×), Oregon (2.1×), Colorado (2.1×), Texas (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Keeley peaked:
Keeley elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Keeley | 3,855 | 162nd |
| Ireland girls | Keeley | 188 | 230th |
| Scotland girls | Keeley | 125 | 220th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Keeley | 118 | 121st |
| England and Wales boys | Keeley | 10 | 2,501st |
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.
Related names
Keeley 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.