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Boy's name · #1307 in the US (2025) · 90s wave
Keenan reached #354 in 1997 and has eased to #1307 since. About 18,000 boys have carried it since 1942.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 24 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#829 in Ireland (2025) · #1,143 in Sweden (2025) · #1,500 in Canada (2025) · #2,014 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,634 in France (2025) · #619 in Scotland (2024) · #5,522 in Ecuador (2024) · #2,634 in Austria (2019) · #403 in N. Ireland (2012) · #1,395 in Belgium (2011) · #394 in New Zealand (2008).
Among 82 notable people named Keenan:
Sports figures appear 3.32× more often than among typical names — e.g. Keenan Evans, American basketball player (born 1996).
Together with its spelling variant Kenan (#1148), Keenan would rank around #769 with about 330 births last year — the newborns split about 55/45 between Kenan and Keenan.
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