Kecia

Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784

Peak · girls
1965 · 560 births
Debut · girls
11 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,148
since 1962

Kecia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kecia has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201974peak #392, 1965girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2003#15,7845
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2001#15,3525
2000#10,7458
1999#8,80510
1998#9,2609
1997#12,0706
1996#8,13210
1995#7,51411
1994#6,31914
1993#5,20618
1992#5,48417
1991#3,81727
1990#3,62329
1989#3,04535
1988#3,30629
1987#2,43442
1986#2,42041
1985#2,28344
1984#2,05049
1983#1,99351
1982#1,78661
1981#1,76763
1980#1,80560
1979#2,18745
1978#1,91551
1977#1,57668
1976#1,56864
1975#1,21994
1974#1,16996
1973#1,15195
1972#1,000118
1971#870154
1970#813170
1969#814159
1968#783163
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1965#392560
1964#617265
1963#1,75443
1962#4,01111
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First appearance
1962

The first year at least five girls were named Kecia! It came in at #4,011, and was given to 11 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2001–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Kecia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2003
  • Biggest jump: 1,137 spots in 1964 (#1,754#617)
  • Biggest drop: 280 spots in 1966 (#392#672)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1962
  • Peaked 1965 at #392 (560 births)
  • Births halved by 1966, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 9 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1964–1972
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,152
  • Highest: 1 in 3,152 girls born in 1965 were named Kecia (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 365,429 girls born in 2003 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 49.2% of all girls named Kecia (1,549) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s1,549#392 (1965)#1,238
1970s955#813 (1970)#1,347
1980s475#1,767 (1981)#2,289
1990s151#3,623 (1990)#7,023
2000s18#10,745 (2000)#13,960

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kecia in 1974

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#1,169
96 births · 1 in 15,287 girls

Top girls' names in 1974

  1. #1Jennifer63,107
  2. #2Amy29,566
  3. #3Michelle25,826
  4. #4Heather23,179
  5. #5Angela22,803
  6. #6Kimberly22,427
  7. #7Melissa22,166
  8. #8Lisa19,778
  9. #9Stephanie16,984
  10. #10Rebecca15,163
  11. #1,169Kecia96
More about 1974

girls

1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 15,287 of them was named Kecia, which outranked 88.6% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kecia
  1. #1,165Ali97
  2. #1,165Harriet97
  3. #1,165Stephany97
  4. #1,169Kecia96
  5. #1,169Carina96
  6. #1,169Collette96
  7. #1,169Jeffrey96
  8. #1,176Alycia95
  9. #1,176Cami95
  10. #1,176Crissy95

Tied with 6 names at #1,169; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. 6,440Nakia#6,666#226
  2. 5,329Nikia#6,080#751
  3. 1,994Luciana#2,914#920
  4. 1,556Cortney#2,349#793
  5. 1,213Nia#1,885#672
Fallers
  1. 1,251Contina#962#2,213
  2. 396Pam#990#1,386
  3. 376Tracee#536#912
  4. 364Cher#760#1,124
  5. 314Richard#904#1,218

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1974