Keir

maleStatistical record

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

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

Keir: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #327, and it stood at #432 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#327highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2000

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2701
2000	#3912

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2023.

In 2019: #418 among boys in Northern Ireland, #1587 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #362 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 recorded1996–2023
Highest recorded position: #327 among boys in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2023).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4107 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Boys

Keir appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 829 births with the name.

Keir 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.

Keir'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	#362 (1996)	#327 (1998)	#4107 (2023)	28 of 28	829 (1996–2023)	74 (1998)
England and Wales · Girls	#2701 (1998)	#2701 (1998)	#3912 (2000)	2 of 3	8 (1998–2000)	5 (1998)

Keir 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 Keir in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	266	4 of 10	67
2000sbusiest	352	10 of 10	35
2010s	189	10 of 10	19
2020s	22	4 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

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

Keir 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #327 in England and Wales in 1998.

Keir'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
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1587	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1210	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1704	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1721	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1462	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1229	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1024	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1218	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#987	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1014	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#793	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#678	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#731	31	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#615	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#509	42	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#433	49	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#404	54	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#366	62	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#327	74	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#353	67	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#362	63	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#432	7	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #327, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 74 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 28 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.

Keila · #372, 24y
Keilan · #423, 24y
Keira · #33, 49y
Keiran · #153, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Andris · #328, 25y
Diya · #326, 30y
Ena · #328, 29y
Madelyn · #328, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Awais · #327, 29y
Helin · #327, 31y
Diogo · #328, 28y
Diya · #326, 30y

Keir was ranked #327 in England and Wales · Boys in 1998. 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.

Keir 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 Keir without appearing here.

Keir moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #4991.

Moved ahead of Keir

Keith Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3017 and #3451 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #2755.
Kelly Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3017 and #3451 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3048.
Aria Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3017 and #3451 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3449.
Brent Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2228 and #4608 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3449.

Moved the opposite way to Keir

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 while Albie went from #853 to #22.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 while Alfred went from #218 to #76.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 while Archie went from #192 to #13.

Moved the same way as Keir

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 and Aaron from #33 to #146.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 and Adam from #16 to #41.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 and Alan from #163 to #464.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Keir went from #362 to #4107 and Alex from #43 to #152.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #327 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Keir

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keir across 2 official records

Keir by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Keir appears in

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Keir across 2 official records

Keir by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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