Keir
Keir is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 197063 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1963
- 1,110people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,046 boys have been named Keir in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 63 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1970s alone account for 26%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 64 girls have also been given it, 5.8% of the total.
By decade
In 1970, its biggest year
Keir was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Keir
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dionpeak 1970
- Shanpeak 1969
- Anastasiospeak 1974
- Torrancepeak 1973
- Damonepeak 1974
- Demetriospeak 1974
- Jobypeak 1977
- Damonpeak 1976
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.