Keelan is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
Keelan is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1418 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,417 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Keelan.
In fact, the name Keelan did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Keelan seemed to be more popular than ever in 2000. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,015, 129 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Keelan, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Keelan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Keelan a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,701 - with a total of 83 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
You may not know anyone named Keelan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Keelan. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Keelan living in one state or another. If your name is Keelan and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Tennessee, which has the most people named Keelan relative to the population, you still have to ask 26,787 men and boys their names before you hear Keelan as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Keelan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Keelan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Keelan, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Keelan
Keelan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Keelan sounds like this:
