Keshia

Where Keshia comes from

Keshia 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. 1979
    Keshia Knight Pulliam born
    American actress
  3. 1986
    Peak, #426
    511 babies named Keshia — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1988
    Keshia Chanté born
    Canadian singer, model, actress and songwriter
  5. 1991
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #811.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Keshia Knight Pulliam · American actress, born 1979
  • Keshia Chanté · Canadian singer, model, actress and songwriter, born 1988
  • Keshia Baker · American athletics competitor, born 1988
  • Keshia Kwadwo · German sprinter, born 1999

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.