Keshav
Keshav was given to 69 boys in 2025, #2,118 among boys’ names; 1,427 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Keshav and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keshav by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keshav mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keshav is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit केशव (keśava).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keshav?
#2,118 among boys’ names, 2025
Keshav rose from #2,466 in 2015 to #2,118 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 26.6 to 40.4 per million.
69 babies in 2025, the peak
Keshav peaked in 2025, when 69 boys were given it, #2,118 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 55 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,118 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,490 | 31.9 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,205 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,813 | 26.3 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,794 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,866 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,712 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,403 | 30.3 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,617 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,376 | 29.0 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,466 | 26.6 |
| 2014 | 56 | #2,331 | 29.2 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,318 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,343 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,490 | 26.3 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,198 | 31.3 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,546 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,490 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,397 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,719 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,986 | 17.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,669 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,329 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,226 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,401 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,773 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,983 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,344 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,109 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,611 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,966 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,699 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,502 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,452 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,298 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,824 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,553 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keshav a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keshav has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keshav: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keshav, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,427 Americans ever recorded as Keshav. The median Keshav alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,635 people named Keshav (7 women and girls, 1,628 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 74 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 651 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 684 |
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 Keshav born?
The states with the most babies named Keshav are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,758 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #804 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,441 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,179 | 0.3× |
Where Keshav is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keshav is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1987 it was given 2.6 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 Keshav 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,439 babies since 1880, Keshav is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 69 babies (100%), 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 Keshav
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 Keshav and names like it
- Compare Keshav and KeshavaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKeshav peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keshav since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Keshav: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Keshav.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Keshav alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.