girls:
63 births since 1984
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
761 births since 1981
#3826 (17th percentile)
overall:
824 births since 1981
#6915 (11th percentile)
The name Keishawn is the #6,915 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 824 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 10.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,826 (16.5% percentile) for all time with 761 births since 1981. For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1984.
Keishawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Keishawn is available in 40 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (38 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Keishawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keishawn reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #760) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keishawn ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 20.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keishawn reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keishawn".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Keishawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.2% confident that Keishawn is pronounced as KEE-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kee-SHAHN, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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