Keshawna — girls' name
460 babies named Keshawna in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
52% of everyone ever named Keshawna was born in this single decade.
38 babies were named Keshawna in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Keshawna
The Social Security Administration has registered 460 babies named Keshawna between 1980 and 2012, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Keshawna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 38 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Keshawna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 238 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Keshawna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maryland and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Keshawna in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Keshawna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 460 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Keshawna at a glance
Last recorded 2012Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Keshawna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–1980
- Peak year (2000)
- 38
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2012.
460 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 38 births in a single year.
Keshawna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 238 births that decade — 52% of Keshawna's all-time total
Keshawna decade highlights
- Peak decade 238 births
- Runner-up 144 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Keshawna's strongest decade
238 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Keshawna by state
Where Keshawna concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Florida | | 15 | 3.3% |
| #2 | Maryland | | 15 | 3.3% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 11 | 2.4% |
| #4 | Virginia | | 5 | 1.1% |
15 of 460 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Florida 3.3% of nationwide
- Maryland 3.3% of nationwide
- Illinois 2.4% of nationwide
- Virginia 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Florida accounts for 3.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.