Keaton

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Keaton: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Keaton: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #271 in 2000, and it stood at #1,282 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#271highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#458
1997	#327
1998	#331
1999	#328
2000	#271
2001	#314
2002	#366
2003	#280
2004	#313
2005	#365
2006	#312
2007	#294
2008	#397
2009	#403
2010	#491
2011	#479
2012	#476
2013	#493
2014	#550
2015	#571
2016	#698
2017	#806
2018	#763
2019	#974
2020	#898
2021	#1329
2022	#1179
2023	#1533
2024	#1282

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2014: #398 among boys in Northern Ireland, #550 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #458 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #271 among boys in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1282 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Keaton appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,954 births with the name.

Keaton across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Keaton's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#458 (1996)	#271 (2000)	#1282 (2024)	29 of 29	1,954 (1996–2024)	130 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#277 (2000)	#277 (2000)	#398 (2014)	3 of 15	9 (2000–2014)	3 (2000)

Keaton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Keaton in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	268	4 of 10	67
2000sbusiest	976	10 of 10	98
2010s	599	10 of 10	60
2020s	111	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 98 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2002 and 2003, when recorded births rose by 41, from 66 to 107.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Keaton appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #271 in England and Wales in 2000.

Keaton's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1282	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1179	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1329	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#898	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#974	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#763	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#806	40	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#698	49	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#571	65	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#550	66	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#493	77	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#476	81	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#479	77	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#491	72	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#403	97	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#397	94	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#294	130	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#312	112	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#365	86	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#313	95	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#280	107	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#366	66	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#314	86	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#271	103	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#328	80	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#331	73	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#327	74	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#458	41	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #271, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 130 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 4 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Christie · #271, 25y
Jamie-Leigh · #271, 27y
Oksana · #271, 29y
Adrien · #270, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aedan · #271, 29y
Alister · #271, 28y
Amy-Leigh · #271, 24y
Benn · #271, 20y

Keaton was ranked #271 in England and Wales · Boys in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Keaton and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Keaton without appearing here.

Keaton moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1533 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1282 and #5119.
Gary Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1329 and #1329 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1179 and #2018.
Jon Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1533 and #1407 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1282 and #1758.
Calum Compare
In 2017 they stood at #806 and #719 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #763 and #1040.

Moved ahead of Keaton

Markus Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1179 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1533 and #1108.
Tadhg Compare
In 2018 they stood at #763 and #786 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #974 and #634.
Conan Compare
In 2020 they stood at #898 and #1379 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1329 and #1023.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1329 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1179 and #967.

Moved the opposite way to Keaton

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Keaton

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keaton went from #458 to #1282 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #271 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Keaton

Keaton at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keaton across 2 official records

Keaton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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Keaton across 2 official records

Keaton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Names published alongside Keaton

Keaton and the names beside it

Keaton moved ahead of

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