Keshon
Keshon was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,330 among boys’ names; 1,288 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Keshon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keshon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keshon?
#9,330 among boys’ names, 2025
Keshon fell from #4,973 in 2015 to #9,330 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 4.7 per million.
111 babies in 2000, the peak
Keshon peaked in 2000, when 111 babies were given it (106 boys, #1,247 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,330 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,434 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,006 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,665 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,375 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,834 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,453 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,392 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,942 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,503 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,973 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,166 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,321 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,857 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,911 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,588 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,021 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #2,810 | 21.1 |
| 2007 | 50 | #2,521 | 24.1 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,215 | 28.2 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,410 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 66 | #1,866 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 64 | #1,859 | 32.4 |
| 2002 | 69 | #1,699 | 35.5 |
| 2001 | 80 | #1,517 | 41.2 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,247 | 54.0 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,410 | 43.2 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,857 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,587 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,088 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,142 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,469 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,925 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,676 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,629 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,846 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,457 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,863 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,554 | 3.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,244 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,505 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,054 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,134 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keshon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,288 Americans recorded as Keshon, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 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 Keshon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keshon, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,288 Americans ever recorded as Keshon. The median Keshon alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,000 people named Keshon (74 women and girls, 926 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,212 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 196 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 883 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 160 |
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,169 babies since 1880, Keshon is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 35 babies (23%), again the second 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 Keshon
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 Keshon and names like it
- Compare Keshon and KeshaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeshon peaked in 2000.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keshon since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Keshon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keshon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.