Meaning not yet researched.
Keyshawn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #520 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #520 in 2000; #3,710 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keyshawn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,710 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #520.
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Keyshawn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #520 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 430 (2000).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Keyshawn, making it the 3,710th most common boys’ name of the year, down 634 places from #3,076 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 40 boys named Keyshawn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #520, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 430. For comparison, it was #2,835 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keyshawn in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 4,083 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,341 babies named Keyshawn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 366 US boys were named Keyshawn; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Keshawn (6,371 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Keyshawn 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 | — | — | 30 | #3,710 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,596 |
| 2022 | — | — | 50 | #2,661 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,076 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,172 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,227 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,484 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | — | — | 42 | #2,863 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,835 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,956 |
| 2013 | — | — | 58 | #2,242 |
| 2012 | — | — | 66 | #2,082 |
| 2011 | — | — | 84 | #1,748 |
| 2010 | — | — | 97 | #1,621 |
| 2009 | — | — | 123 | #1,384 |
| 2008 | — | — | 145 | #1,217 |
| 2007 | — | — | 162 | #1,118 |
| 2006 | — | — | 195 | #956 |
| 2005 | — | — | 177 | #982 |
| 2004 | — | — | 242 | #758 |
| 2003 | — | — | 285 | #680 |
| 2002 | — | — | 275 | #675 |
| 2001 | — | — | 307 | #619 |
| 2000 | — | — | 430 | #520 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,547 | 323 | #594 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,782 | 192 | #800 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,935 | 194 | #771 |
| 1996 | — | — | 187 | #783 |
| 1995 | — | — | 37 | #2,197 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,709 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,232 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,077 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,665 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,233 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,806 |
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).