Keiran
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Irish
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kɪɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Keiran is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 314K
- NLNetherlands1 in 960K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
1,061 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A male given name from Irish. An Irish spelling of the name Kieran or Kieron.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Keiran, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Keiran 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,061 | 1 in 314K | 884 | Keiran | 7 |
| ES Spain | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
1,061 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yanada Zeiganb. 1672JPnot in their usual nameYanada, Zeigan, 1672-1757
- Barry Nicholasb. 1919GBnot in their usual nameBritish academic
- Keiran Kerrb. 1979AUAustralian rugby league footballer
- Keiran Leeb. 1984GBBritish pornographic actor
- Keiran Murtaghb. 1988AGEnglish footballer
- Keiran Hydeb. 1989English rugby league player
- Ciar Pringleb. 1994GBnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Keiran Zziwab. 1997CACanadian-Ugandan basketball player
- Kiaran MacDonaldb. 1997GBnot in their usual nameBritish boxer
- Keiran RaineGBresearcher
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)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)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Keiran come from?
- A male given name from Irish. An Irish spelling of the name Kieran or Kieron. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Keiran?
- In the etymology graph, Kieran, Kieron and Kyron are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Keiran mean?
- Recorded meaning: A male given name from Irish.
- How do you pronounce Keiran?
- A machine transcription gives /kɪɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Keiran a male or female name?
- Keiran is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Keiran have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Keiran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keiran.
- Where is Keiran most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keiran is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Keiran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,061 people named Keiran in 2020, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keiranThe 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, “Keiran”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.