Kashawn
Kashawn was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,334 among boys’ names; 1,189 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Kashawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 17 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kashawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kashawn?
#11,334 among boys’ names, 2025
Kashawn fell from #5,173 in 2015 to #11,334 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 3.5 per million.
54 babies in 1994, the peak
Kashawn peaked in 1994, when 54 babies were given it (49 boys, #1,786 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,334 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,508 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,098 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,779 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,254 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,356 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,683 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,656 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,898 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,224 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,173 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,866 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,392 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,320 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,556 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,413 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,139 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,387 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,053 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,647 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,125 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,984 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,156 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,723 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,588 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,356 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,586 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,053 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,284 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,563 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,040 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 49 | #1,786 | 25.4 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,682 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,377 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,950 | 10.9 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,523 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,839 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,001 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,097 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,301 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,774 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,771 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,201 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,413 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,878 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,730 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,722 | 3.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,032 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kashawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,189 Americans recorded as Kashawn, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kashawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kashawn, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,189 Americans ever recorded as Kashawn. The median Kashawn alive today is 26 years old; half are between 17 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 863 people named Kashawn (102 women and girls, 761 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,097 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 386 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 539 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 191 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kashawn born?
The states with the most babies named Kashawn are New York, New Jersey and Virginia, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 268 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Kashawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kashawn is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kashawn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,075 babies since 1880, Kashawn is the most given (57% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kashawn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kashawn and names like it
- Compare Kashawn and KayshawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKashawn peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kashawn since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kashawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kashawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.