How Many People Are Named Keshawn?

6,250

people named Keshawn are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 54,685 people in the US has this name

Based on 6,371 babies named Keshawn in Social Security records from 1973 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,250

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,240

See the top 100

Peak Year

2000

396 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American (Modern)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Combination of the popular name prefix Ke and SHAWN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
5.3%
Male
94.7%

Of the babies given the name Keshawn, 5.3% were girls and 94.7% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Keshawn fell from 37.5% in the 1980s to 0% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Keshawn alive today is about 22 years old, and 86% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 27 in 2025.

Under 30 5,394
86.3%
30 to 59 855
13.7%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Keshawn first appears in the records in 1973 and was given most often in 2000, to 396 babies. In 2025, 41 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1973 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Keshawn has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #555, in 2000. In 2025 it ranked #3,019.

Boys
Rank in 2025#3,019
Best rank#555 (2000)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#691 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Keshawn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Keshawn were born in Florida than in any other state: about 445 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Keshawn was given 3.5 times as often in South Carolina, 3.2 times in Mississippi and 2.7 times in Virginia.

Florida 445
Illinois 383
Texas 368
Georgia 333
North Carolina 288
Virginia 280
California 278
New York 234
Ohio 224
Michigan 191
South Carolina 187
New Jersey 145
Maryland 140
Tennessee 131
Mississippi 122
Alabama 116
Louisiana 103
Pennsylvania 89
Indiana 86
Missouri 80
Wisconsin 52
Arkansas 47
Kentucky 33
Oklahoma 23
Arizona 21
New Mexico 10
Minnesota 5
Kansas 5

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