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Keller

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Keller is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 105 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1050.01% of boys
Peak year
2012171 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1911
4,077people given the name
Babies named Keller, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,623 boys have been named Keller in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 171 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 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 39%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 454 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Keller
1910s49
1920s47
1930s25
1940s26
1950s6
1960s21
1970s32
1980s75
1990s314
2000s1,128
2010s1,402
2020s498

In 2012, its biggest year

Keller was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.

Names that rose and fell with Keller

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

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.