Kewan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kewan has been given to 337 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1997, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Kewan, 2017
1 in 596,000
Kewan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kewan?
Kewan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 596,000
- 6 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 413,245 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kewan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kewan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kewans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kewan was born before 1998 — so the typical Kewan is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 337
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (114).
Is Kewan 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (20)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kewan
Kewan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 47.6% against Kewan'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 Kewan is used
Across 1910–2025, Kewan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 656,498 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 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. Kewan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kewan around the world
Where Kewan 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 & Wales2009–2009#4,527in 2009
- France1999–2025#4,416in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Kewan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kewan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kewan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.