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Keshaun vs Keshon

American parents have registered 2,431 Keshauns since 1880, against 1,288 Keshons. Keshaun is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keshaun against Keshon, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keshaun Keshon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Keshaun for 39 years and Keshon for 8 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Keshaun Keshon
Total US births 2,4311,288
Most in one year 170111
Babies in 2025 198
Estimated living today 2,4001,300
Median age today 2123
Peak year 20012000
Best rank 936th boys1,247th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th8,910th
First recorded 19781975
Girls / boys 51 / 2,38048 / 1,240

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Keshons alive today are over 23; half the Keshauns are over 21. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keshaun and Keshon.