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Keyonna vs Keyshawn

American parents have registered 4,083 Keyshawns since 1880, against 3,581 Keyonnas. Keyshawn is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keyonna against Keyshawn, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keyonna Keyshawn

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 53 years in which either name was published, Keyshawn for 29 years and Keyonna for 24 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Keyonna Keyshawn
Total US births 3,5814,083
Most in one year 155430
Babies in 2025 1330
Estimated living today 3,5004,000
Median age today 2622
Peak year 19952000
Best rank 1,131st girls520th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th3,658th
First recorded 19731983
Girls / boys 3,581 / 024 / 4,059

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 Keyonnas alive today are over 26; half the Keyshawns are over 22. That is 4 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: Keyonna and Keyshawn.