girls:
143 births since 1998
#5573 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1989
#3585 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1989
#6589 (15th percentile)
The name Keiran is the #6,589 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,151 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 14.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,585 (21.8% percentile) for all time with 1,008 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,573 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 143 births since 1998.
Keiran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 1998 for girls).
The name Keiran has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Keiran were boys.
For boys, Keiran reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #823) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keiran ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 28.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keiran reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #974) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keiran".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Keiran", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 27 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Kieran" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Kieran..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Keiran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.5% confident that Keiran is pronounced as KIH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-ruhn, at 32.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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