Meaning not yet researched.
Keshawn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #555 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #555 in 2000; #3,020 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keshawn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,020 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #555.
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Keshawn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #555 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 380 (2000).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Keshawn, making it the 3,020th most common boys’ name of the year, down 614 places from #2,406 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 58 boys named Keshawn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #555, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 380. For comparison, it was #1,811 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keshawn in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 6,371 US babies have been given the name, 5.4% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,037 babies named Keshawn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 605 US boys were named Keshawn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Keyshawn (4,083 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keishawn, Kyshawn and Kishawn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keishawn (837), Kyshawn (491), Kishawn (359), Keeshawn (204), Kieshawn (40), Keashawn (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Keshawn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 41 | #3,020 |
| 2024 | — | — | 58 | #2,406 |
| 2023 | — | — | 52 | #2,565 |
| 2022 | — | — | 40 | #3,081 |
| 2021 | — | — | 67 | #2,145 |
| 2020 | — | — | 72 | #1,988 |
| 2019 | — | — | 66 | #2,159 |
| 2018 | — | — | 57 | #2,339 |
| 2017 | — | — | 73 | #1,965 |
| 2016 | — | — | 79 | #1,884 |
| 2015 | — | — | 83 | #1,811 |
| 2014 | — | — | 79 | #1,866 |
| 2013 | — | — | 116 | #1,428 |
| 2012 | — | — | 126 | #1,353 |
| 2011 | — | — | 131 | #1,307 |
| 2010 | — | — | 196 | #1,003 |
| 2009 | — | — | 238 | #884 |
| 2008 | — | — | 243 | #873 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,101 | 259 | #831 |
| 2006 | — | — | 247 | #825 |
| 2005 | — | — | 275 | #736 |
| 2004 | — | — | 332 | #635 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,827 | 350 | #603 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,678 | 301 | #644 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,536 | 368 | #566 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,652 | 380 | #555 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,978 | 319 | #596 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,944 | 262 | #659 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,056 | 248 | #661 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,935 | 224 | #707 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,766 | 114 | #1,047 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,354 | 88 | #1,238 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,913 | 71 | #1,373 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,479 | 55 | #1,610 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,533 | 51 | #1,637 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,658 | 45 | #1,766 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,751 | 30 | #2,272 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,035 | 31 | #2,069 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,122 | 12 | #3,869 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,418 | 21 | #2,566 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,920 | 8 | #4,942 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,602 | 18 | #2,654 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,432 | 10 | #4,021 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,795 | 12 | #3,600 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,746 | 16 | #2,838 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,522 | 9 | #4,336 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,003 | 13 | #3,266 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,072 | 12 | #3,308 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,084 | 7 | #4,886 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,303 | 13 | #3,016 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,795 | 5 | #5,923 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,823 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).