Keir is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Keir in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Keir in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Keir by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Keir ranks at #5,330. That means there are 5,329 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Keir.
Keir is a quite familiar phenomenon. Before 1900, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. It took a while, but then, unexpectedly, Keir cried out for attention, reaching rank 842 in 1970. So, schoolkids of the late 19th century probably didn't have classmates named Keir and it has never reached the top 100 list in our statistics, but for a while it became more and more fashionable in the last century, which makes Keir really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Keir was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
20 babies were named Keir in 2022 - that's 1 in 8,071,300 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Keir ranked 4,181 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which first records are available.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Keir. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 94 Americans who bear this name. And these 94 men and boys named Keir live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Keir lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Keir and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Keir relative to its male population is New Jersey. And even there, only one male in 287,786 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Keir.
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 Keir 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.
If your name is Keir 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 Keir, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Keir
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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. Keir sounds like this:
