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Keshawn

#3,019 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Keshawn has been given to 6,371 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #3,019 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 380 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Keshawn, 2025

1 in 80,900

Keshawn over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Keshawn over time

In 2025, Keshawn went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19732025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Keshawn: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Keshawn means

Keshawn is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Keshawn is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Keshawn is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,029 boys were recorded with the name Keshawn between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 380 in 2000; its best national rank was #555 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,988 in 2020 to #3,019 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,811 in 2015 to #3,019 in 2025.

In the United States, 342 girls were recorded with the name Keshawn between 1975 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,601 in 1984.

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 Keshawn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 41,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,019
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keshawn 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keshawn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keshawns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keshawn was born before 2003 — so the typical Keshawn is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,029
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2000s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (2,993).

Is Keshawn 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
−613
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,031
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,208
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.8%
Peak was 2000 (380)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#555
2000

Spellings of Keshawn

Keshawn is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 79.4% against Keshawn's 1.6%.

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 Keshawn is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Keshawn was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 41,597 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 25,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 33,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
  6. 6Virginia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Maryland1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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.

Where Keshawn is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Keshawn was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 580,767 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Keshawn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keshawn around the world

Where Keshawn 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
    2009–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1999–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Keshawn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Keshawn. Linked forms have their own page here.

Keyshawn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Keshawn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,019
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,031
Best rank ever
#555
2000
Peak year
2000
380 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,029
Count in 2025
41

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,601
1984
Peak year
1995
21 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
342
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keshawn

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

KeshaunRashawnTyshawnDashawnLashawnKeshavJashawnDeshawnKeshonKeseanKesslerKeyshawnRayshawnTashawnKestonMarshawnKashawnKeshunNashawnJayshawnLeshawnTreshawnDayshawnTayshawn

Names with a curve like Keshawn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Keshawn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KobyDevynJaylanLatrellJaylonShamarTrevionTyreseReillyHadenJaquezSavion

Sibling names for Keshawn

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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