Kyshaun
Kyshaun was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,101 among boys’ names; 229 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyshaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyshaun?
#13,101 among boys’ names, 2025
Kyshaun fell from #8,426 in 2015 to #13,101 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 2.9 per million.
21 babies in 2008, the peak
Kyshaun peaked in 2008, when 21 boys were given it, #4,636 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,101 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,281 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,283 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,426 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,233 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,633 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,480 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,366 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,501 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,636 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #7,926 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,966 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,760 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,656 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,426 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,585 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,879 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,145 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,198 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,605 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,493 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,377 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyshaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyshaun has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyshaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyshaun, and how old are they?
An estimated 225 Americans named Kyshaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 192 people named Kyshaun (7 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,500 babies since 1880, Kyshaun is the second most given (15% of them).
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 Kyshaun
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 Kyshaun and names like it
- Compare Kyshaun and KishanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKyshaun peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kyshaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyshaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.