# Keiran (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/keiran/  
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 | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,186 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,043 / 143 (12% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,304, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | 12,003 |
| 2002 | 6 | 14,516 |
| 2003 | 6 | 14,803 |
| 2004 | 10 | 10,298 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,427 |
| 2006 | 11 | 10,259 |
| 2007 | 18 | 7,249 |
| 2008 | 15 | 8,338 |
| 2009 | 8 | 13,069 |
| 2010 | 5 | 18,451 |
| 2011 | 9 | 11,686 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11,753 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,473 |
| 2014 | 9 | 11,461 |
| 2015 | 7 | 13,749 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 63 | 2,120 |
| 2012 | 41 | 2,890 |
| 2013 | 50 | 2,481 |
| 2014 | 36 | 3,131 |
| 2015 | 43 | 2,791 |
| 2016 | 55 | 2,375 |
| 2017 | 36 | 3,218 |
| 2018 | 25 | 4,156 |
| 2019 | 27 | 3,955 |
| 2020 | 26 | 3,973 |
| 2021 | 23 | 4,440 |
| 2022 | 20 | 4,939 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5,798 |
| 2024 | 19 | 5,170 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,727 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 94 | 408 |
| 2010 | 82 | 451 |
| 2011 | 63 | 557 |
| 2012 | 52 | 654 |
| 2013 | 47 | 692 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,560 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Keiran

- Keiran Lee, British pornographic actor
- Keiran Murtagh, English footballer

## 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.