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Keenan

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Keenan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 166 births. Its best rank was 354th, in 1997.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1660.01% of boys
Peak year
1997717 births
Best rank
#354in 1997
Since 1942
18,025people given the name
Babies named Keenan, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

18,025 boys have been named Keenan in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 717 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 33%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Keenan
1940s70
1950s292
1960s866
1970s1,173
1980s2,519
1990s5,987
2000s3,683
2010s2,480
2020s955

In 1997, its biggest year

Keenan was the 354th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.

Names that rose and fell with Keenan

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.