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Keshaun vs Keshone

American parents have registered 2,431 Keshauns since 1880, against 21 Keshones. Keshaun is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keshaun Keshone

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

Keshaun has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Keshaun had 69 and Keshone had 13.

Side by side

  Keshaun Keshone
Total US births 2,43121
Most in one year 17013
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 2,40020
Median age today 2129
Peak year 20011996
Best rank 936th boys4,613th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19781996
Girls / boys 51 / 2,3800 / 21

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 Keshones alive today are over 29; half the Keshauns are over 21. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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