girls:
24 births since 1987
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1983
#1946 (58th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1983
#4336 (44th percentile)
The name Keyshawn is the #4,336 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,011 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 44.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,946 (57.6% percentile) for all time with 3,987 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1987.
Keyshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for boys and 1987 for girls). Birth data for Keyshawn is available in 35 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (34 years for boys and 4 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 Keyshawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keyshawn reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 42.6% percentile (ranked #468) with 206 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 206 births per million (ranked 42.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keyshawn ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 8.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keyshawn reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #872) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keyshawn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Keyshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.1% confident that Keyshawn is pronounced as KEE-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-SHAWN, at 29.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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