Keyshawn
Keyshawn was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,709 among boys’ names; 4,083 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,010 Americans named Keyshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keyshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keyshawn?
#3,709 among boys’ names, 2025
Keyshawn fell from #2,834 in 2015 to #3,709 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.9 to 17.6 per million.
430 babies in 2000, the peak
Keyshawn peaked in 2000, when 430 boys were given it, #520 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,709 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,075 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,594 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 50 | #2,660 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,072 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,170 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,224 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,480 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,863 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,862 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,834 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,954 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,241 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,081 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 84 | #1,747 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 97 | #1,621 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 123 | #1,384 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,217 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 162 | #1,118 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 195 | #956 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 177 | #981 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 242 | #758 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 285 | #680 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 275 | #675 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 307 | #619 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 430 | #520 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 323 | #593 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 192 | #799 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 194 | #769 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 187 | #781 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,192 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,802 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keyshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keyshawn has been given almost only to boys: 24 girls in 37 years of records.
Girls and boys named Keyshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keyshawn, and how old are they?
4,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,083 Americans ever recorded as Keyshawn. The median Keyshawn alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,151 people named Keyshawn (69 women and girls, 3,082 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,830 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 254 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 501 |
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 Keyshawn born?
The states with the most babies named Keyshawn are Florida, New York and Texas, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 367 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 331 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 276 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 222 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 175 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 163 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 160 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 130 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 121 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Keyshawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keyshawn is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1983 it was given 2.5 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 Keyshawn 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, Keyshawn is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 78 babies (38%), 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 Keyshawn
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 Keyshawn and names like it
- Compare Keyshawn and KeshawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeyshawn peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keyshawn since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Keyshawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keyshawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.