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Keaton

Pronounced /ˈkitən/

Rank in 2024
#843
Born in 2024
288
Peak year
2007 · #359
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 288 boys were named Keaton, about 1 in every 5,956.
  • It peaked in 2007 with 881 babies, ranked #359.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1925.
  • 21,749 boys have been named Keaton since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Keaton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.4
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 129 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,738 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 12,242 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,630 babies, 0.26 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

A variant of Caton or Keeton, or a habitational name from Keaton in Ermington, Devon, possibly derived from Welsh cae (“hedge, enclosure”) + Middle English toun (“farmstead, settlement”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈkitən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Keaton, CC BY-SA 4.0.