# Keagan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/keagan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,541 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,784 / 1,757 (17% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 391, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Variant of Keegan.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 70 | 2,572 |
| 2012 | 76 | 2,439 |
| 2013 | 80 | 2,318 |
| 2014 | 73 | 2,490 |
| 2015 | 70 | 2,575 |
| 2016 | 58 | 2,924 |
| 2017 | 43 | 3,595 |
| 2018 | 50 | 3,225 |
| 2019 | 57 | 2,910 |
| 2020 | 37 | 3,874 |
| 2021 | 41 | 3,712 |
| 2022 | 28 | 4,851 |
| 2023 | 29 | 4,697 |
| 2024 | 36 | 4,078 |
| 2025 | 29 | 4,703 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 440 | 568 |
| 2012 | 437 | 585 |
| 2013 | 342 | 699 |
| 2014 | 321 | 742 |
| 2015 | 294 | 794 |
| 2016 | 258 | 869 |
| 2017 | 250 | 870 |
| 2018 | 234 | 919 |
| 2019 | 178 | 1,109 |
| 2020 | 169 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 122 | 1,475 |
| 2022 | 128 | 1,431 |
| 2023 | 104 | 1,657 |
| 2024 | 105 | 1,626 |
| 2025 | 105 | 1,614 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,209 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1,617 |
| 2014 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2015 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 12 | 1,875 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,635 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,125 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.
