girls:
64 births since 1969
#5652 (1st percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1963
#3562 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1963
#6642 (14th percentile)
The name Keir is the #6,642 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,097 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 14.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,562 (22.3% percentile) for all time with 1,033 births since 1963. For girls, it ranks #5,652 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1969.
Keir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for boys and 1969 for girls).
The name Keir has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keir reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #610) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 33 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keir ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 28.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keir reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #767) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keir".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Keir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Keir is pronounced as kear, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kihr, at 37.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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