Keshawn
Keshawn was given to 41 boys in 2025, #3,019 among boys’ names; 6,371 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,240 Americans named Keshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keshawn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keshawn 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 Keshawn?
#3,019 among boys’ names, 2025
Keshawn fell from #1,811 in 2015 to #3,019 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 43.3 to 24.0 per million.
396 babies in 2000, the peak
Keshawn peaked in 2000, when 396 babies were given it (380 boys, #555 among boys’ names). The 41 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,019 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,406 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 52 | #2,564 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,079 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,144 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,988 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,158 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,338 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 73 | #1,965 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 79 | #1,884 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | #1,811 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 79 | #1,866 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,428 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 126 | #1,353 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 131 | #1,307 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 196 | #1,003 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 238 | #884 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 243 | #873 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 259 | #831 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 247 | #825 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 275 | #736 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 332 | #635 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 350 | #603 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 301 | #644 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 368 | #566 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 380 | #555 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 319 | #595 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 262 | #659 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 248 | #661 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 224 | #706 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,044 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,234 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,368 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,605 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,631 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,064 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,864 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,937 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,653 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,019 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,599 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,836 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,335 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,884 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,015 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,921 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,821 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,371 Americans recorded as Keshawn, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 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 Keshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keshawn, and how old are they?
6,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,371 Americans ever recorded as Keshawn. The median Keshawn alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,641 people named Keshawn (258 women and girls, 4,383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,972 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 109 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 975 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 876 |
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 Keshawn born?
The states with the most babies named Keshawn are Florida, Illinois and Texas, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 453 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 390 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 374 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 338 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 293 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 286 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 284 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 239 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 228 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 194 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Keshawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keshawn is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1973 it was given 2.2 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 Keshawn 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,495 babies since 1880, Keshawn is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 78 babies (53%), 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 Keshawn
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 Keshawn and names like it
- Compare Keshawn and KeyshawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeshawn peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keshawn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Keshawn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Keshawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keshawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.