Keaton
Keaton is ranked 843rd among boys in 2024 (288 births). Its best rank was 353rd, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #843up 32 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2880.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2007881 births
- Best rank
- #353in 2000
- Since 1925
- 23,080people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,749 boys have been named Keaton in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 881 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 439 → 843).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 36%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,331 girls have also been given it, 5.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2007, its biggest year
Keaton was the 358th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Keaton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kollinpeak 2009
- Tyrenpeak 2006
- Connorpeak 2004
- Calebpeak 2002
- Braytonpeak 2012
- Chasepeak 2009
- Raycepeak 2012
- Damariuspeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.