Keenan
Keenan reached its high-water mark in 1997 at number 354, and has been recorded 18,515 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,305th. About 18,000 Keenans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Keenan boys named Keenan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,515
- Estimated living today
- 18,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 354th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,305th
- First recorded
- 1942
- Girls / boys
- 339 / 18,176
How old the living Keenans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,515 babies given the name since 1942, about 18,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 4,200 of them are children and 320 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 Irish
From Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Keenans
- Keenan Wynn (1916–1986)American actor
- Keenan Evans (born 1996)American basketball player
People named Keenan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Keenan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Keenan is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.1×), Oregon (2.5×), Colorado (2.3×), Alaska (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular boys’ names the year Keenan peaked:
Keenan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Keenan | 1,304 | 188th |
| France boys | Keenan | 325 | 1,463rd |
| Scotland boys | Keenan | 83 | 313th |
| Ireland boys | Keenan | 82 | 283rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Keenan | 21 | 241st |
| Belgium boys | Keenan | 5 | 1,395th |
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
Keenan 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.