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Keziah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 354 in 2025. Its best rank was #767 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 94% of babies named Keziah in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#767 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Keziah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 354 girls in 2025. Peak: #767 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 354 (2025).
In 2025, 354 US girls were named Keziah, making it the 767th most common girls’ name of the year, up 101 places from #868 in 2024. That is 42 more than the 312 girls named Keziah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #767, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 354. For comparison, it was #1,420 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keziah in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 5,086 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,645 babies named Keziah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,249 US girls were named Keziah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 354. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,540 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keziah ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #516 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Keisha (22,337 babies since 1880), Kezia (2,424 babies since 1880) and Kecia (3,148 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kesia, Keziyah and Kessiah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kizza and Kizzie.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kesia (692), Keziyah (202), Kessiah (146), Kesiah (78), Kiziah (20), Keazia (16), Keasiah (14), Keziya (5), Keyziah (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 15 | #516 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #519 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #524 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #543 | #711 |
| Florida | 33 | #550 | #1,577 |
| Virginia | 14 | #555 | #1,019 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #565 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #588 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #596 | #1,131 |
| Michigan | 13 | #619 | — |
| North Carolina | 16 | #648 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #691 | — |
| Ohio | 14 | #692 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #746 | — |
| Texas | 38 | #790 | #1,508 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #790 | #1,324 |
| New York | 20 | #815 | #1,554 |
| Colorado | 6 | #852 | #969 |
| Washington | 7 | #861 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #869 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #921 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #942 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #989 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,010 | #899 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,121 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,258 | #1,564 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 354 | #767 | 24 | #4,322 |
| 2024 | 312 | #868 | 18 | #5,343 |
| 2023 | 239 | #1,054 | 17 | #5,579 |
| 2022 | 221 | #1,117 | 12 | #7,048 |
| 2021 | 224 | #1,106 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2020 | 200 | #1,167 | 10 | #7,817 |
| 2019 | 181 | #1,280 | 5 | #13,196 |
| 2018 | 178 | #1,286 | 15 | #5,923 |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,384 | 9 | #8,520 |
| 2016 | 173 | #1,366 | 6 | #11,505 |
| 2015 | 163 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,451 | 5 | #13,141 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,519 | 6 | #11,506 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,554 | 5 | #13,368 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,701 | 7 | #10,489 |
| 2008 | 154 | #1,518 | 5 | #13,656 |
| 2007 | 143 | #1,583 | 8 | #9,369 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 2005 | 123 | #1,636 | 8 | #8,738 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,725 | 5 | #11,906 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,164 | 6 | #9,970 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,088 | 6 | #9,361 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,064 | 6 | #8,323 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,306 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,848 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,458 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,681 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,954 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,194 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,244 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,627 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,089 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,221 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,239 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,647 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,577 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,793 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,531 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,411 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,875 | — | — |
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).