Kegan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A Manx contraction of Mac Taidhgin, ‘son of little Tadhg’ (the poet); first attested not stated

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

/kiɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kegan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

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

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A Manx contraction of Mac Taidhgin, ‘son of little Tadhg’ (the poet); first attested not stated.

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kegan 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 Kegan 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)

Kegan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Keğan

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France

    Also written Kégan

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Singapore, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Keğan

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Charles Kegan Paul, b. 1828Judith Kegan Gardiner, b. 1941Kegan Clark, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Kegan,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Kegan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.4K#4,898
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020266#4,898
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1992175—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1993174—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2007157—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1991154—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1994146—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2002145—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1995137—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2006134—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2011127—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1989127—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kegan a male or female name?
Kegan 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.
What does the name Kegan mean, and where does it come from?
A Manx contraction of Mac Taidhgin, ‘son of little Tadhg’ (the poet); first attested not stated. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Kegan?
A machine transcription gives /kiɡən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kegan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Kegan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kegan.
Where is Kegan most common?
Kegan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 91 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kegan?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,653 people named Kegan 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, “Kegan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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