girls:
342 births since 1975
#5374 (6th percentile)
boys:
5.9k births since 1973
#1533 (67th percentile)
overall:
6.3k births since 1973
#3433 (56th percentile)
The name Keshawn is the #3,433 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,271 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 55.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,533 (66.6% percentile) for all time with 5,929 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,374 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 342 births since 1975.
Keshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Keshawn is available in 50 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 30 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 Keshawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keshawn reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 39.6% percentile (ranked #492) with 182 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 182 births per million (ranked 39.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keshawn ranks #864 for boys (5.2% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 15.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keshawn reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #833) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keshawn".
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Our model has identified 17 different pronunciations for the name Keshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.0% confident that Keshawn is pronounced as keh-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-shawn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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