Keishawn
Masculine
Keishawn is given to both — 774 boys and 63 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Keishawn is built out of two pieces that came from opposite sides of the nursery. The ending is Shawn, a boy's name; the opening syllable is the one that starts Keisha, a girl's name. American coinage moves parts between the sexes freely, and this is what that looks like on a birth certificate.
How old is the name Keishawn?
Keishawn first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Keishawn alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 800 people named Keishawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keishawn most popular?
Keishawn peaked in 1999, reaching #1932 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 7,782 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Keishawn
Our story of Keishawn
The American name workshop keeps a small stock of opening syllables and a larger stock of endings, and the two shelves are not sorted by sex. Ke- and Kei- ran through the girls' list first, in Keisha and Keyana and Keyla, from the 1970s onward. Shawn ran through the boys' list at the same time, an Irish name respelled until it looked American. Keishawn joins the two, and the join is audible: the first half is a girls' prefix and the second half is a boys' name, which is why the whole reads unmistakably as a boy's name rather than an ambiguous one. The ending decides. That rule holds across the whole family, and it is why a shared prefix never made these names unisex.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Shawn is an English respelling of Sean, the Irish form of John, from Hebrew Yohanan. The Kei- element carries no meaning of its own; it is a prefix borrowed from the Keisha and Keyana family, whose own origin is unsettled. Nothing is gained by treating the whole as a compound with a translatable sense. The peak is 1999.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Sean
- Shawn
- Keishawn
Pronouncing Keishawn
kee-SHAWN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Keyshawn and Keishaun are homophones.
Nicknames for Keishawn
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1981
- Most boys named
- 199950 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1932reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- +16.7%7 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Keishawns among us
people named Keishawn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Keishawn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Keishawn
- #9714
- Keishawn on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Keishawn went to 7 boys in 2025, but Keyshawn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 891st most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,823 places above the chart.
- Keyshawn30
- Keishawn7
About 1 boy in 46,164 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 244,011 for Keishawn itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Berkeley test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keishawn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Berkeley climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Berkeley's path sketches the road Keishawn is walking now.
Keishawn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Keishawn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keishawn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The second half, Shawn, is a name every American can already spell and say.
- Kei and KJ both work as everyday short forms.
- Stress on the second syllable gives it a firm ending.
- The spelling competes with Keyshawn, which the football player Keyshawn Johnson made the better-known form.
- The 1999 peak dates it closely.
- The Kei- opening is shared with a large set of female names.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keishawns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Keishawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Keishawn?
- Keishawn is one of 2 recorded spellings. Keyshawn is the more common one — 30 births in 2025 against 7 for Keishawn.
- How popular is the name Keishawn in 2025?
- Keishawn ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keishawn?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Keishawn — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keishawn with classmates?
- Keishawn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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