Kesha

Where Kesha comes from

Kesha hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #3,515 among girls, 14 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Peak, #524
    320 babies named Kesha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1976
    Kesha Rogers born
    American politician
  4. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,015.
  5. 1987
    Kesha born
    American singer and songwriter
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kesha · American singer and songwriter, born 1987
  • Kesha Rogers · American politician, born 1976
  • Kesha Ram · American politician from Vermont, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.