Keshia vs Keston
American parents have registered 5,386 Keshias since 1880, against 834 Kestons. But in 2025 it was Keston that was commoner, 20 babies to fewer than five.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Keshia Keston
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 62 years in which either name was published, Keshia for 38 years and Keston for 24 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Keshia | Keston | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,386 | 834 |
| Most in one year | 511 | 43 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 20 |
| Estimated living today | 5,200 | 820 |
| Median age today | 39 | 15 |
| Peak year | 1986 | 2010 |
| Best rank | 426th girls | 2,787th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 4,857th |
| First recorded | 1964 | 1981 |
| Girls / boys | 5,380 / 6 | 0 / 834 |
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 Keshias alive today are over 39; half the Kestons are over 15. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Keshia | Keston |
|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 23 | 41 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keshia and Keston.