# Keven (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/keven/  
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 | 8,882 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,752 / 130 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 30, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 7 | 4,450 |
| 1950 | 9 | 3,816 |
| 1951 | 6 | 5,140 |
| 1952 | 10 | 3,670 |
| 1953 | 8 | 4,406 |
| 1954 | 7 | 4,906 |
| 1955 | 10 | 3,922 |
| 1956 | 12 | 3,588 |
| 1957 | 8 | 4,714 |
| 1958 | 11 | 3,827 |
| 1959 | 9 | 4,464 |
| 1961 | 6 | 6,197 |
| 1962 | 5 | 7,041 |
| 1964 | 8 | 5,214 |
| 1967 | 7 | 5,728 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 110 | 1,480 |
| 2012 | 90 | 1,694 |
| 2013 | 84 | 1,746 |
| 2014 | 62 | 2,191 |
| 2015 | 50 | 2,510 |
| 2016 | 62 | 2,195 |
| 2017 | 39 | 3,042 |
| 2018 | 32 | 3,483 |
| 2019 | 22 | 4,565 |
| 2020 | 31 | 3,535 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,670 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,330 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5,803 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,342 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6,006 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2,470 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2010 | 8 | 2,400 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Keven

- Keven Schlotterbeck, German association football player
- Keven Alemán, Canadian footballer
- Kris Wu, Chinese-born Canadian rapper, actor and model (born 1990)

## 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.