girls:
155 births since 1996
#5561 (3rd percentile)
boys:
913 births since 1987
#3677 (20th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1987
#6671 (14th percentile)
The name Keigan is the #6,671 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,068 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 13.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,677 (19.8% percentile) for all time with 913 births since 1987. For girls, it ranks #5,561 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 155 births since 1996.
Keigan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (1987 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Keigan is available in 35 out of the 37 years between 1987 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 20 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 Keigan has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 53.3% of babies named Keigan were boys.
For boys, Keigan reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #845) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keigan ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 14.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keigan reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #974) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Keigan ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 55.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keigan".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Keegan. View all variations of Keegan.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Keigan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 19 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Keegan" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Keegan..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Keigan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Keigan is pronounced as KEE-guhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-guhn, at 27.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Keigan? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Keigan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Keigan, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K IY1 G AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker