Keyshon
Keyshon was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 339 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keyshon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keyshon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,132, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 2001, the peak
Keyshon peaked in 2001, when 36 boys were given it, #2,655 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #13,132 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,472 | 4.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,214 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,557 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,439 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,201 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,908 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,649 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,735 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,990 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 32 | #3,023 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,729 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,655 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,114 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,528 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,771 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,154 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,508 | 7.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keyshon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keyshon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keyshon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keyshon, and how old are they?
An estimated 333 Americans named Keyshon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 19 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 338 people named Keyshon (21 women and girls, 317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keyshon
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.