Keshawn

If you thought DeShaun and DaShaun were bad, I raise you KeShaun and KaShaun. An utterly awful name, do not give this to your child under any circumstances.

A black boy named Keshawn is going to come onto this website and request you all to stop talking crap about these names. I personally respect names for black people, I understand you wouldn’t name a white boy Keshawn.

I think the name is tough and has class. I really hate the fact that African American names get so much hate. The people who create these names want to be creative and people who are from upper-class backgrounds also like to mix it up a bit too. I mean we have names like Kesha, Amiee, Sage, Ryott, Tu, and Basil that are popular with non-lower class and non-black parents too.

I don't have a problem with ARTFULLY invented names, but honestly, this sounds like a sneeze: "Keshawn! Keshawn! Excuse me!"
Aside, I wish people would drop the race/class directed comments and judgmental attitude.

The prefix really ruins this name.

I usually don't like modern names, but this one I find tolerable. I'd prefer to spell it "Keshan", though.

What is wrong with these parents who take a perfectly good name and then mangle them into these horrendous "names"? It looks like something that some lower-class person might give to their son; trashy, stagnant, harsh, insubstantial (by that, I mean that there's no meaning to it), something that might set your son up for trouble if he climbs up the social ladder; who will take him seriously with an indignity like this?