How rare is the name Keisha?

22,143 people in the United States have the first name Keisha, about 1 in 13,640. It ranks #1,503 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KEISHA

#1,503

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
22,143
About
1 in 13,640
This common or more
75.2%
Who bears it

Of the 22,143 people named Keisha, 69.4% reported their origin as Black, 17.1% as White and 6.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Keisha peaked in 1977, when 1,050 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19612025
Peak year
1977
Births that year
1,050
In 2025*
63 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 22,337 babies have been given the name since 1961. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Keisha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #527. The largest share of babies named Keisha, 47.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#1,905904
1970s#5278,931
1980s#6666,892
1990s#1,1383,783
2000s#3,402971
2010s#5,524518
2020s#5,172338
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–8047.7%
Millennials 1981–9641%
Generation Z 1997–128%
2013 and later3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Keisha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Keisha has been most common in District of Columbia (4.7×), Louisiana (2.9×), and Georgia (1.9×), and least common in Minnesota (0.1×).

19,966 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Keisha

#1,501 Milagros · 22,183#1,502 Young · 22,168#1,504 Leann · 22,094#1,505 Carey · 22,072

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Keisha, most common first.

#3,903 Kesha · 5,006#6,734 Keesha · 2,348#8,108 Keysha · 1,805#9,700 Keosha · 1,418#18,057 Keasha · 601#22,961 Keisa · 430#31,173 Keishia · 276#37,262 Keiosha · 210

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