How rare is the name Keshia?

4,786 people in the United States have the first name Keshia, about 1 in 63,107. It ranks #4,052 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KESHIA

#4,052

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,786
About
1 in 63,107
This common or more
83.5%
Who bears it

Of the 4,786 people named Keshia, 60.8% reported their origin as Black, 25% as White and 5.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Keshia peaked in 1986, when 511 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19642011
Peak year
1986
Births that year
511
In 2011
8 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,386 babies have been given the name since 1964. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Keshia by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,210. The largest share of babies named Keshia, 67.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#4,348202
1970s#1,6991,285
1980s#1,2102,661
1990s#2,4941,129
2000s#16,92194
2010s#36,94115
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–8029.1%
Millennials 1981–9667.4%
Generation Z 1997–123.2%

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

Where Keshia is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Keshia has been most common in Mississippi (2.6×), Georgia (2.3×), and Tennessee (2.2×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.37×).

4,063 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.

Exactly as common as Keshia

1 other first name also has 4,786 people.

#4,052 Lanie · 4,786

Either side of Keshia

#4,049 Javion · 4,789#4,051 Elnora · 4,788#4,052 Lanie · 4,786#4,054 Alessia · 4,782

Spelled almost the same

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

#3,903 Kesha · 5,006#13,720 Kesia · 874#27,579 Keyshia · 331#31,173 Keishia · 276#42,346 Keoshia · 170#43,336 Kechia · 163#45,502 Kessia · 149#47,857 Keashia · 135

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