Keshawn

Where Keshawn comes from

The dictionaries list Keshawn as a given name — a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,505 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1990
    Keshawn Martin born
    American football player
  4. 2000
    Peak, #555
    380 babies named Keshawn — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,305.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes
  • Keshawn Martin · American football player, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.