# Keelan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/keelan/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,942 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,591 / 351 (9% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,692, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 16 | 7,928 |
| 2009 | 13 | 9,148 |
| 2010 | 17 | 7,361 |
| 2011 | 17 | 7,267 |
| 2012 | 15 | 8,022 |
| 2013 | 14 | 8,354 |
| 2014 | 12 | 9,258 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,388 |
| 2016 | 7 | 13,617 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,155 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,906 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,121 |
| 2021 | 7 | 12,858 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16,515 |
| 2023 | 5 | 16,385 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 112 | 1,462 |
| 2012 | 113 | 1,460 |
| 2013 | 117 | 1,423 |
| 2014 | 135 | 1,312 |
| 2015 | 135 | 1,313 |
| 2016 | 107 | 1,551 |
| 2017 | 96 | 1,654 |
| 2018 | 105 | 1,586 |
| 2019 | 123 | 1,426 |
| 2020 | 86 | 1,772 |
| 2021 | 88 | 1,797 |
| 2022 | 78 | 1,974 |
| 2023 | 58 | 2,374 |
| 2024 | 67 | 2,180 |
| 2025 | 55 | 2,463 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 66 | 528 |
| 2012 | 57 | 619 |
| 2013 | 60 | 589 |
| 2014 | 62 | 574 |
| 2015 | 42 | 765 |
| 2016 | 29 | 994 |
| 2017 | 30 | 996 |
| 2018 | 30 | 958 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,290 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,165 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,675 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## 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.