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Keyshawn

#3,709 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Keyshawn has been given to 4,083 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #3,709 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 430 recorded.

Babies named Keyshawn, 2025

1 in 111,000

Keyshawn over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keyshawn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keyshawn means

Keyshawn is a given name.

The naming story behind Keyshawn

Wikidata records Keyshawn as a given name. The entity identifier is Q87557067, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,059 boys were recorded with the name Keyshawn between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 430 in 2000; its best national rank was #520 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,170 in 2020 to #3,709 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,834 in 2015 to #3,709 in 2025.

In the United States, 24 girls were recorded with the name Keyshawn between 1987 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1998; its best national rank was #11,776 in 1998.

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.

How common is Keyshawn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,709
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keyshawn 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keyshawn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keyshawns were born

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

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
57.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,059
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (2,341).

Is Keyshawn 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
−634
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−539
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−875
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.0%
Peak was 2000 (430)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#520
2000

Spellings of Keyshawn

Keyshawn is not the most common spelling — Deshawn is, with 35.2% against Keyshawn's 8.9%.

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 Keyshawn is used

Across 1910–2025, Keyshawn was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 50,692 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 16,667
  2. 2Georgia1 in 20,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 20,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Virginia1 in 33,333
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Keyshawn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keyshawn around the world

Where Keyshawn 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
    2008–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • France
    2009–2011
    #5,696
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1997–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Keyshawn

People whose public names include Keyshawn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Keyshawn in other languages

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

Keshawn

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

Keyshawn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 539
Best rank ever
#520
2000
Peak year
2000
430 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,059
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,776
1998
Peak year
1998
7 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keyshawn

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

RayshawnMarshawnKeyshaunJayshawnKeyontaeTreshawnLashawnTyshawnDayshawnTayshawnKeshawnKeyondreRashawnJashawnKeyonKeyonteDashawnDaeshawnKeylanKeishawnDreshawnTashawnKeytonKeylor

Names with a curve like Keyshawn

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

ShemarTyreseJaquezJaylanLatrellTrevionKobyJalonJaylonGavenHadenKevon

Sibling names for Keyshawn

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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