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The first name 
Keen

Keen is a male first name.

Keen – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Keen in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Keen in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Keen by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Keen ranks at #6,726. That means there are 6,725 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Keen

Keen has 4 letters 
and begins with a K

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 four letters, the name Keen is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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.

Other names with 
K, e, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Keen – K, e, e and n – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Kene.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Keen

If your name is Keen 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...

This is how you spell the name Keen

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Keen, you can simply say:

Koala

Elephant

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Keen is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Keen in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Keen

Keen

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Keen

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Keen is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
E
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Keen

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.

K
E
E
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Keen sounds like this: