Meaning not yet researched.
Keturah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,339 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,339 in 1982; #4,819 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keturah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,819 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #1,339.
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Keturah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,339 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 96 (1992).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Keturah, making it the 4,819th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,337 places from #3,482 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 45 girls named Keturah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,339, reached in 1982. The most girls given the name in a single year was 96, in 1992. For comparison, it was #3,563 in 2015 and #5,695 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keturah in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 3,541 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 784 babies named Keturah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 444 US girls were named Keturah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ketura and Ketara 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ketura (184), Ketara (74).
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 Keturah 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 | 28 | #4,819 | — | — |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,927 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,052 | — | — |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,563 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,691 | — | — |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,821 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,326 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,818 | — | — |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,191 | — | — |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 2000 | 74 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1995 | 95 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1982 | 93 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1977 | 75 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,429 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,603 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,069 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,730 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,392 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,430 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,893 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,753 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,713 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,610 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,282 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,206 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,809 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,695 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,637 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,905 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,298 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,711 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,865 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,225 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,236 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,790 | — | — |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,949 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,019 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,424 | — | — |
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).