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 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 1,436 of them was named Keisha, which outranked 97.7% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 223,051 of them was named Keisha, which outranked 32.0% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,941Zacharias8
- #3,941Zedrick8
- #3,941Zion8
- #4,309Keisha7
- #4,309Abayomi7
- #4,309Abdias7
- #4,309Acey7
- #4,797Aaren6
- #4,797Abiel6
- #4,797Abu6
Tied with 487 names at #4,309; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.