Keagan
Feminine · “descendant of little Aodh”
Keagan is given to both — 1,757 girls and 8,784 boys since 1880. See Keagan as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Keagan is an Irish surname built on Aodh, the name of a fire god who became the commonest men's name in medieval Ireland.
How old is the name Keagan?
Keagan first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Keagan alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,700 people named Keagan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keagan most popular?
Keagan peaked in 2007, reaching #1971 nationally. Today it ranks #4661, 2,690 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keagan
Ours, offered as ours. Aodh was a god before he was a name, and after Ireland converted the name stayed and the god was forgotten — it became simply the most ordinary men's name in the country, so common that English speakers translated it as Hugh, which is unrelated. Every Keegan, Egan, Hayes and McCoy is carrying a fire god's name, several removes down and entirely domesticated.
Meaning
descendant of little Aodh
From Irish Mac Aodhagáin, on Aodh, a pre-Christian god associated with fire and the sun, with a diminutive. Aodh was so common that it produced Hughes, Egan, Keegan, McKay and a dozen other surnames.
Pronouncing Keagan
KEE-gun
Two syllables, first stressed. Keagan and Keegan are said identically.
Nicknames for Keagan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 2007104 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1971reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −19.4%29 in 2025, from 36
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Keagan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mac Aodhagáin in Irish — related form
- Keegan in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, North Carolina, Ohio.
Keagans among us
people named Keagan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was named Keagan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sanda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keagan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sanda climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sanda's path sketches the road Keagan is walking now.
Keagan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Keagan is headed
Keagan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Keagan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keagan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Irish meaning with a genuinely old divine name behind it.
- Read correctly by English speakers once they have seen it once.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Keegan is the standard spelling and will be written for her.
- It is used more often for boys, so forms may guess wrong.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keagans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Keagan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Keagan in 2025?
- Keagan ranks #4661 among US girl names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keagan?
- About 1 in every 55,423 US girls born in 2025 was named Keagan — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keagan with classmates?
- Keagan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Keagan
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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