Keshaun

Where Keshaun comes from

The dictionaries list Keshaun 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. 1978
    First appearance
    #5,059 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    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. 2000
    Peak, #927
    165 babies named Keshaun — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,232.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Keshaun turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.