Keaton
Keaton is a boy's name that peaked in 2007, when it was the 358th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 769th. About 23,000 Keatons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Keaton boys named Keaton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 23,505
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 358th
- Rank in 2025
- 769th
- First recorded
- 1925
- Girls / boys
- 1,418 / 22,087
How old the living Keatons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 23,505 babies given the name since 1925, about 23,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
A variant of Caton or Keeton, or a habitational name from Keaton in Ermington, Devon, possibly derived from Welsh cae (“hedge, enclosure”) + Middle English toun (“farmstead, settlement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Keatons
- Keaton Henson (born 1988)English musician and artist
People named Keaton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Keaton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Keaton is most concentrated in Utah (4.6×), Iowa (3.3×), Kansas (2.7×), Idaho (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Keaton peaked:
Keaton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Keaton | 1,966 | 294th |
| France boys | Keaton | 35 | 6,847th |
| Scotland boys | Keaton | 28 | 520th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Keaton | 9 | 277th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Keaton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.