Kégan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kégan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: see Keegan (ii).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 91K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 125K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 160K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,653 people, 2020

Sources
278 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kegan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

see Keegan (ii).

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kégan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kégan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,6531 in 91K3.4KKegan278
ZA South Africa≈350 est.≈1 in 160K—Kegan25
GB United Kingdom≈93 est.≈1 in 711K3Kegan66
AU Australia≈74 est.≈1 in 346K1Kegan46
CA Canada≈58 est.≈1 in 649K1Kegan53
SG Singapore≈21 est.≈1 in 292K—Kegan6
GY Guyana61 in 125K6—1

3,653 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kégan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France

    Also written Kegan

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kégan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kégan mean, and where does it come from?
see Keegan (ii). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Kégan a male or female name?
Kégan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Kégan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Kégan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kegan.
Where is Kégan most common?
Kégan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 91 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kégan?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,653 people named Kégan in 2020, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kégan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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