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The first name 
Keithen

Keithen is a first name for boys.

Keithen – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Keithen in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Keithen in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Keithen by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Keithen ranks at #7,050. That means there are 7,049 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 Keithen.

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

Keithen -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Keithen. Boys named Keithen have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,309 Keithen ranked higher than ever in 1967. By comparison, there have been 90 years in which the first name Keithen has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Keithen only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Keithen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Keithen -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Keithen is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Keithen can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Keithen. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Keithen living in one state or another. (If your name is Keithen and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Keithen is in Louisiana, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Louisiana, only 0.00085% of all male residents are called Keithen – that’s just one in 117,641! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 25 men going by that name. So, if your name is Keithen, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Keithen has 7 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 seven letters, the name Keithen has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Keithen

If your name is Keithen 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 Keithen

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

Koala

Elephant

Igloo

Tiger

Hat

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Keithen 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 Keithen in Braille?

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

Keithen

Keithen

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

K
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T
H
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Keithen

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
I
T
H
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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. Keithen sounds like this: