Meaning not yet researched.
Keisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #233 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #233 in 1976; #2,738 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,738 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #233.
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Keisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #233 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 1,050 (1977).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Keisha, making it the 2,738th most common girls’ name of the year, down 161 places from #2,577 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 69 girls named Keisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #233, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,050, in 1977. For comparison, it was #2,949 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keisha in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 22,337 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 8,931 babies named Keisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 482 US girls were named Keisha; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keisha ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #978 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Keziah (5,086 babies since 1880), Keesha (2,713 babies since 1880), Kezia (2,424 babies since 1880) and Kisha (6,664 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kyesha, Keasha and Kysha are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kyesha (760), Keasha (705), Kysha (410), Keyosha (338), Kyeisha (231), Keiosha (224), Kyisha (216), Kiasha (175), Kiosha (175), Kyiesha (146), Keyasha (129), Keiasha (85), and more.
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 Keisha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 16 | #978 | #1,576 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,583 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,682 | — | — |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,036 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,035 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,066 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2001 | 133 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1999 | 169 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1998 | 200 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1997 | 259 | #803 | — | — |
| 1996 | 360 | #625 | — | — |
| 1995 | 333 | #648 | — | — |
| 1994 | 361 | #616 | — | — |
| 1993 | 396 | #593 | — | — |
| 1992 | 458 | #519 | — | — |
| 1991 | 590 | #429 | — | — |
| 1990 | 657 | #397 | — | — |
| 1989 | 710 | #362 | 5 | #8,594 |
| 1988 | 651 | #371 | — | — |
| 1987 | 752 | #324 | — | — |
| 1986 | 733 | #331 | — | — |
| 1985 | 666 | #355 | — | — |
| 1984 | 519 | #410 | — | — |
| 1983 | 582 | #381 | — | — |
| 1982 | 666 | #352 | — | — |
| 1981 | 720 | #330 | — | — |
| 1980 | 883 | #279 | 5 | #6,775 |
| 1979 | 938 | #257 | 7 | #5,119 |
| 1978 | 984 | #246 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,050 | #237 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,027 | #233 | 6 | #5,287 |
| 1975 | 1,015 | #241 | 7 | #4,565 |
| 1974 | 979 | #257 | 9 | #3,709 |
| 1973 | 963 | #259 | 5 | #5,486 |
| 1972 | 804 | #303 | — | — |
| 1971 | 647 | #367 | — | — |
| 1970 | 490 | #449 | — | — |
| 1969 | 330 | #542 | — | — |
| 1968 | 184 | #721 | — | — |
| 1967 | 145 | #838 | — | — |
| 1966 | 89 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1965 | 90 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,584 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,029 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,192 | — | — |
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).