Given name & surname
Keefer
“one who makes barrels”
Keefer is a variant of Kiefer. One German interpretation is “one who makes barrels.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Keefer is a variant of Kiefer. One German interpretation is “one who makes barrels.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Keefer is a variant of Kiefer. An origin associated with Kiefer is German.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Keefer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 315
- 315 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 330 as a first name in 2020; 9,169 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Keefer
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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