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Kegan

Gender
Boy
Say it
KEE-gan
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#5,606 for boys

Kegan is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “son of little Aodh (fire)”. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).

What does Kegan mean?

Irish: spelling of Keegan, from Mac Aodhagáin

“son of little Aodh (fire)”

A spelling of Keegan, from an Irish surname based on Aodh, an old name meaning 'fire'.

Is Kegan a girl's or a boy's name?

Kegan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kegan in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 16 boys.

Half of all the boys named Kegan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2012. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 16 in 20102022
Kegan in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20224#4,195
20210–
20203#4,803
20193#4,913
20184#4,169
20174#4,161
20160–
20156#3,149
20147#2,843
20137#2,792
201210#2,230
201115#1,619
201016#1,585
20098#2,445
200811#1,930
20078#2,337
200612#1,640
200510#1,814
20048#1,983
20035#2,574
20025#2,358
20013#3,255
20000–
19995#2,184
19984#2,531
19976#1,853
19968#1,506

How popular is Kegan in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,606th among boys
Babies in 2025
16 about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling down 49% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Kegan, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,342nd. Its busiest year was 1992, with 175 boys. It first appears in the records in 1970.

Half of all the boys named Kegan in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 585 boys in the US were given Kegan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #515, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.

1970Busiest: 175 in 19922025
Kegan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202516#5,606
202424#4,318
202315#5,922
202226#4,086
202118#5,105
202033#3,342
201931#3,568
201844#2,747
201735#3,248
201649#2,550
201556#2,327
201464#2,137
201382#1,762
201282#1,798
2011127#1,331
2010110#1,481
2009118#1,425
2008122#1,389
2007157#1,139
2006134#1,249
200594#1,512
2004120#1,249
2003105#1,318
2002145#1,051
2001100#1,303
2000111#1,212
199990#1,326
1998126#1,057
1997115#1,093
1996112#1,077
1995137#946
1994146#899
1993174#799
1992175#790
1991154#829
1990126#910
1989127#895
198889#1,045
198791#995
198658#1,268
198512#3,596
198411#3,698
198315#2,911
198212#3,481
198114#3,028
19806#5,523
197910#3,808
19786#5,056
19778#4,162
19760–
19755#5,462
19740–
19735#5,099
19720–
19710–
19706#4,228

Names like Kegan

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Keegan, Aiden, Declan, Conan, Finn, Kian, Kayden, Keelan, Ronan, Brogan, Keenan, Conlan

Other spellings of Kegan

Keegan, Keagan, Keigan, Keeghan

Names related to Kegan

Keighan, Keaghan, Kiegan, Kagan, Keagen, Kaegan, Keygan

More Irish names

Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Connor, Casey, Kennedy, Callan, Lennon, Cillian

Every Irish name

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, “Kegan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kegan, updated 20 October 2026.