girls:
48 births since 1992
#5668 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1975
#3382 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1975
#6468 (16th percentile)
The name Keshon is the #6,468 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,273 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 16.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,382 (26.2% percentile) for all time with 1,225 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,668 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1992.
Keshon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1992 for girls). Birth data for Keshon is available in 41 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 7 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 Keshon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keshon reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 12.4% percentile (ranked #713) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 51 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keshon ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 10.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keshon reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #858) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% 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 "Keshon".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Keshon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.1% confident that Keshon is pronounced as keh-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-shuhn, at 25.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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