Kesan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kesan has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Kesan, 2009
1 in 546,000
Kesan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kesan?
Kesan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 546,000
- 7 of 3,820,315 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 283,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 378,293 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kesan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 378,293 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kesan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kesans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kesan was born before 2008 — so the typical Kesan is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 39
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (39).
Is Kesan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2008 (32)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Kesan
Kesan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 45.8% against Kesan's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kesan is used
Across 1910–2025, Kesan was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 628,941 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kesan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kesan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kesan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kesan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.