girls:
51 births since 1978
#5665 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1978
#2612 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1978
#5427 (30th percentile)
The name Keshaun is the #5,427 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,395 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 29.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,612 (43.0% percentile) for all time with 2,344 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,665 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1978.
Keshaun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 . Birth data for Keshaun is available in 41 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 9 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 Keshaun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keshaun reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 19.7% percentile (ranked #654) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 80 births per million (ranked 19.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keshaun ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keshaun reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #863) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% 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 "Keshaun".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Keshaun", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 34 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Keshawn" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Keshawn..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Keshaun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.3% confident that Keshaun is pronounced as keh-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-SHAWN, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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