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Keshav

#2,118 in 2025Boys' name

Having long or much or handsome hair, through केशव

Keshav has been given to 1,427 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #2,118 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Keshav, 2025

1 in 48,000

Keshav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keshav: meaning, origin, and history

Having long or much or handsome hair, through केशव

Sanskrit

What Keshav means

Keshav belongs to the name family reached through Keshav → केशव. Its meaning is “having long or much or handsome hair”.

Origin, language, and formation

Keshav is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Keshav comes through Sanskrit केशव.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include केशव.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,427 boys were recorded with the name Keshav between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,118 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,866 in 2020 to #2,118 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,466 in 2015 to #2,118 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Keshav?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,000
69 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 24,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,118
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keshav sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keshav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keshavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keshav was born before 2012 — so the typical Keshav is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,427
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (532).

Is Keshav 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
+372
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+748
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+348
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (69)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,118
2025

Spellings of Keshav

Keshav is not the most common spelling — Keshawn is, with 38.3% against Keshav's 9.1%.

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 Keshav is used

Across 1910–2025, Keshav was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 142,151 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Keshav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keshav around the world

Where Keshav ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Keshav by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,118
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 748
Best rank ever
#2,118
2025
Peak year
2025
69 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,427
Count in 2025
69

Names similar to Keshav

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KeshonKeseanKestonKeshunKeshaunRaghavKeslerKesslerMadhavKeshawnKesterAadhavVaibhavRishavVibhavKrishavKessiahKestynKesleyKeshanKestinKestenKesaunKesan

Sibling names for Keshav

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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