Kesean
Kesean was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,963 among boys’ names; 1,236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Kesean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kesean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kesean?
#7,963 among boys’ names, 2025
Kesean fell from #5,628 in 2015 to #7,963 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 5.9 per million.
85 babies in 2001, the peak
Kesean peaked in 2001, when 85 boys were given it, #1,453 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,963 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,652 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,796 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,011 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,374 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,269 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,968 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,517 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,913 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,545 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,628 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,864 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,087 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,202 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,844 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,896 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,503 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 81 | #1,818 | 39.7 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,151 | 30.4 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,364 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,170 | 28.0 |
| 2004 | 77 | #1,679 | 38.8 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,619 | 39.5 |
| 2002 | 82 | #1,520 | 42.2 |
| 2001 | 85 | #1,453 | 43.7 |
| 2000 | 65 | #1,730 | 33.1 |
| 1999 | 60 | #1,725 | 31.2 |
| 1998 | 59 | #1,730 | 30.9 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,186 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,199 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,624 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,691 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,090 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,675 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,543 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,823 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kesean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kesean has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kesean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kesean, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,236 Americans ever recorded as Kesean. The median Kesean alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 895 people named Kesean (14 women and girls, 881 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 124 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 926 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 164 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,722 babies since 1880, Kesean is the most given (72% 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 Kesean
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 Kesean and names like it
- Compare Kesean and KeyseanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKesean peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kesean since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Kesean.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kesean alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.