Kesha
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 1979 at #6,056
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 320 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,248since 1964
Kesha over time
Rank among girls' names. Kesha has never cracked the top 500 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 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | — | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | — | |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | — | |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | — | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,510 | 50 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,155 | 62 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,152 | 62 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,830 | 78 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,642 | 91 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,356 | 117 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,267 | 124 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,210 | 124 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,132 | 131 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,150 | 124 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,077 | 135 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,255 | 102 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,015 | 139 | — | |
| 1982 | #886 | 173 | — | |
| 1981 | #825 | 191 | — | |
| 1980 | #772 | 213 | — | |
| 1979 | #682 | 251 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #628 | 267 | — | |
| 1977 | #569 | 309 | — | |
| 1976 | #549 | 313 | — | |
| 1975 | #556 | 304 | — | |
| 1974 | #524 | 320 | — | |
| 1973 | #561 | 293 | — | |
| 1972 | #641 | 238 | — | |
| 1971 | #677 | 228 | — | |
| 1970 | #906 | 145 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,193 | 87 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,279 | 74 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,039 | 33 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,982 | 34 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,993 | 34 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kesha! It came in at #3,515, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2019–2022, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kesha
- 1,545 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #11,932)
- 1,074 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 287 spots in 1970 (#1,193 → #906)
- Biggest drop: 129 spots in 1983 (#886 → #1,015)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1974 at #524 (320 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1970–1982
- Highest: 1 in 4,586 girls born in 1974 were named Kesha (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.8% of all girls named Kesha (2,668) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 276 | #1,193 (1969) | #2,000 |
| 1970s | 2,668 | #524 (1974) | #629 |
| 1980s | 1,456 | #772 (1980) | #1,059 |
| 1990s | 615 | #1,356 (1990) | #2,506 |
| 2000s | 125 | #5,364 (2001) | #9,801 |
| 2010s | 81 | #8,701 (2010) | #11,332 |
| 2020s | 27 | #10,312 (2023) | #12,757 |
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.
Kesha in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 6,395 of them was named Kesha, which outranked 94.3% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 344,307 of them was named Kesha, which outranked 14.4% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,015 names at #6,056; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.