girls:
334 births since 1964
#5382 (6th percentile)
boys:
17.9k births since 1942
#862 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.2k births since 1942
#1905 (75th percentile)
The name Keenan is the #1,905 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,188 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 75.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #862 (81.2% percentile) for all time with 17,854 births since 1942. For girls, it ranks #5,382 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 334 births since 1964.
Keenan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (1942 for boys and 1964 for girls). Birth data for Keenan is available in 80 out of the 82 years between 1942 and 2023 (80 years for boys and 38 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Keenan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keenan reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 57.4% percentile (ranked #338) with 359 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 359 births per million (ranked 57.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keenan ranks #730 for boys (19.9% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 28.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keenan reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #837) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keenan".
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