Keisha
#2,719 for girls in 2025, 63 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 1,027 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,293since 1961
Keisha over time
Rank among girls' names. Keisha has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,719 | 63 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 69 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,653 | 42 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,250 | 49 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,399 | 45 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,001 | 36 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,184 | 51 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,533 | 70 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,483 | 73 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,870 | 60 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,457 | 76 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,939 | 103 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,073 | 90 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,962 | 95 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,243 | 76 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,510 | 125 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,422 | 133 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,369 | 136 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,154 | 169 | — | |
| 1998 | #998 | 200 | — | |
| 1997 | #802 | 259 | — | |
| 1996 | #625 | 360 | — | |
| 1995 | #648 | 333 | — | |
| 1994 | #615 | 361 | — | |
| 1993 | #593 | 396 | — | |
| 1992 | #517 | 458 | — | |
| 1991 | #429 | 590 | — | |
| 1990 | #397 | 657 | — | |
| 1989 | #361 | 710 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #371 | 651 | — | |
| 1987 | #324 | 752 | — | |
| 1986 | #330 | 733 | — | |
| 1985 | #355 | 666 | — | |
| 1984 | #409 | 519 | — | |
| 1983 | #381 | 582 | — | |
| 1982 | #352 | 666 | — | |
| 1981 | #329 | 720 | — | |
| 1980 | #279 | 883 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #257 | 938 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #246 | 984 | — | |
| 1977 | #237 | 1,050 | — | |
| 1976 | #233 | 1,027 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #241 | 1,015 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #257 | 979 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #259 | 963 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #303 | 804 | — | |
| 1971 | #367 | 647 | — | |
| 1970 | #448 | 490 | — | |
| 1969 | #541 | 330 | — | |
| 1968 | #720 | 184 | — | |
| 1967 | #833 | 145 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,119 | 89 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,109 | 90 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,666 | 48 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keisha! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1963, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Keisha
- 160 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #2,719)
- 680 spots since 2020 (#3,399 → #2,719)
- 208 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #2,719)
- Biggest jump: 286 spots in 1967 (#1,119 → #833)
- Biggest drop: 196 spots in 1998 (#802 → #998)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1976 at #233 (1,027 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1967–1998
- Highest: 1 in 1,427 girls born in 1976 were named Keisha (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,512 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.9% of all girls named Keisha (8,897) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 904 | #541 (1969) | #2,635 |
| 1970s | 8,897 | #233 (1976) | #285 |
| 1980s | 6,882 | #279 (1980) | #349 |
| 1990s | 3,783 | #397 (1990) | #678 |
| 2000s | 971 | #1,369 (2000) | #2,049 |
| 2010s | 518 | #2,483 (2011) | #3,332 |
| 2020s | 338 | #2,517 (2023) | #3,016 |
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.
Keisha in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 1,499 of them was named Keisha, which outranked 97.5% 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).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 174,704 of them was named Keisha, which outranked 40.7% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,318Woodie10
- #3,318Yisroel10
- #3,318Yolanda10
- #3,558Keisha9
- #3,558Aaren9
- #3,558Adren9
- #3,558Akiva9
- #3,837Abdon8
- #3,837Agostino8
- #3,837Agron8
Tied with 278 names at #3,558; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.