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Keyri vs Keyshawn

American parents have registered 4,083 Keyshawns since 1880, against 632 Keyris. Keyshawn is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keyri 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 38 years in which either name was published, Keyshawn for 37 years and Keyri for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Keyri Keyshawn
Total US births 6324,083
Most in one year 38430
Babies in 2025 1430
Estimated living today 6304,000
Median age today 1522
Peak year 20072000
Best rank 4,050th girls520th boys
Rank in 2025 7,491st3,658th
First recorded 19911983
Girls / boys 632 / 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 Keyshawns alive today are over 22; half the Keyris are over 15. That is 7 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: Keyri and Keyshawn.