Boy
Keenan
As a boy's name, Keenan is understood to mean "little ancient one". It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. The name's best year yet was 1997.
IrishIrish "Cianán"
EtymologyMeaning "little ancient one"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
70
1950s
292
1960s
872
1970s
1,217
1980s
2,608
1990s
6,096
2000s
3,738
2010s
2,043
Peaked in the 1990s · 16,936 total U.S. births since 1900