girls:
34 births since 2009
#5682 (1st percentile)
boys:
155 births since 2006
#4431 (3rd percentile)
overall:
189 births since 2006
#7550 (2nd percentile)
The name Keighan is the #7,550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 189 recorded births since 2006. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,431 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 155 births since 2006. For girls, it ranks #5,682 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 34 births since 2009.
Keighan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2006 (2006 for boys and 2009 for girls). Birth data for Keighan is available in 14 out of the 14 years between 2006 and 2019 (14 years for boys and 5 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 Keighan has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2019, 100.0% of babies named Keighan were boys.
For boys, Keighan reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #891) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Keighan reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #955) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% 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 "Keighan".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Keighan", 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 4 different pronunciations for the name Keighan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.0% confident that Keighan is pronounced as KEE-guhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-uhn, at 38.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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