Keshaun
Keshaun was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,125 among boys’ names; 2,431 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Keshaun 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 Keshaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keshaun mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keshaun is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keshaun?
#5,125 among boys’ names, 2025
Keshaun fell from #3,743 in 2015 to #5,125 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 11.1 per million.
170 babies in 2000, the peak
Keshaun peaked in 2000, when 170 babies were given it (165 boys, #925 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,125 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,552 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,943 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,624 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,438 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,867 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,671 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,154 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,723 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,867 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,743 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,953 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,788 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,370 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,253 | 30.5 |
| 2010 | 83 | #1,787 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 101 | #1,591 | 50.9 |
| 2008 | 115 | #1,444 | 56.4 |
| 2007 | 101 | #1,559 | 48.7 |
| 2006 | 132 | #1,268 | 64.2 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,310 | 58.1 |
| 2004 | 144 | #1,098 | 72.5 |
| 2003 | 154 | #1,027 | 78.0 |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,067 | 73.1 |
| 2001 | 166 | #936 | 85.4 |
| 2000 | 165 | #925 | 84.0 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,189 | 56.2 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,273 | 49.7 |
| 1997 | 71 | #1,489 | 37.7 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,559 | 33.8 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,529 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,828 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,133 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,224 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,870 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,144 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,407 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,862 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,219 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,668 | 3.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,422 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,738 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,447 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keshaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,431 Americans recorded as Keshaun, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 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 Keshaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keshaun, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,431 Americans ever recorded as Keshaun. The median Keshaun alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,829 people named Keshaun (91 women and girls, 1,738 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 231 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 347 |
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 Keshaun born?
The states with the most babies named Keshaun are Florida, Illinois and Texas, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 139 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 125 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 122 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 111 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 99 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 95 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 89 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 57 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 36 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Keshaun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keshaun is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1978 it was given 1.5 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 Keshaun 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,640 babies since 1880, Keshaun is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 41 babies (46%), again the most given.
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 Keshaun
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 Keshaun and names like it
- Compare Keshaun and KeshonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeshaun peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keshaun since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Keshaun: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Keshaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keshaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.