boys:
1.2k births since 1990
#3394 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1990
#6527 (16th percentile)
The name Kesean is the #6,527 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,213 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 15.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,394 (25.9% percentile) for all time with 1,213 births since 1990.
Kesean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990).
For boys, Kesean reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 9.7% percentile (ranked #745) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 41 births per million (ranked 9.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kesean ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 21.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kesean".
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Our model has identified 21 different pronunciations for the name Kesean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.2% confident that Kesean is pronounced as kee-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-see-uhn, at 13.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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