Keerat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEE-rat
- Origin
- Punjabi
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Keerat is a girls' name of Punjabi origin, meaning “praise, glory”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Keerat mean?
Punjabi: Sikh name, from kirat 'praise, glory' (Sanskrit kirti)
“praise, glory”
Shares its root with kirtan, the singing of hymns in praise of God in Sikh and Hindu worship.
Is Keerat a girl's or a boy's name?
Keerat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Keerat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Keerat, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 18 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Keerat than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Keerat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Girls were 55% of the babies named Keerat in the UK in 2009, and 75% in 2023.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Keerat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 16 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 10 | #2,590 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 13 | #2,224 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Keerat in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Keerat in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Keerat in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
Names like Keerat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nimrat Avneet Gurnaaz Prisha Japneet Khivi Arya Saanvi Kirat Aadhya Ayat Gursifat
Names related to Keerat
More Punjabi names
Asees Gurbaaz Nirvair Gurfateh Jind Baani Akaal Gurnawab Jujhar Ajooni Mannat Ekam Gurniwaz Gursanjh Avleen Anhad
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Keerat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/keerat, updated 20 October 2026.