Meaning not yet researched.
Keesha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #879 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #879 in 1977; #16,113 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keesha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,113 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #879.
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Keesha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #879 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 164 (1977).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Keesha, making it the 16,113th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #879, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 164. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keesha in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 8 babies. In all, 2,713 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,269 babies named Keesha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13 US girls were named Keesha; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Keisha (22,337 babies since 1880), Kisha (6,664 babies since 1880), Kesha (5,253 babies since 1880) and Kiesha (2,621 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Keesha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,113 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,649 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,806 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,238 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,205 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,478 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,982 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,378 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,578 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,252 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,249 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,804 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,992 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,968 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,473 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,179 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1981 | 102 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1980 | 116 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1979 | 119 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1977 | 164 | #879 | — | — |
| 1976 | 125 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1975 | 144 | #906 | — | — |
| 1974 | 142 | #897 | — | — |
| 1973 | 139 | #901 | — | — |
| 1972 | 132 | #932 | — | — |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,207 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).