How rare is the name Kisha?

5,799 people in the United States have the first name Kisha, about 1 in 52,083. It ranks #3,556 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

KISHA

#3,556

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,799
About
1 in 52,083
This common or more
82.6%
Who bears it

Of the 5,799 people named Kisha, 69.3% reported their origin as Black, 15.5% as White and 6.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kisha peaked in 1977, when 483 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632024
Peak year
1977
Births that year
483
In 2024
7 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,664 babies have been given the name since 1963. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Kisha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #901. The largest share of babies named Kisha, 68.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#2,953400
1970s#9013,823
1980s#1,5411,800
1990s#4,669438
2000s#13,171137
2010s#26,45441
2020s#24,79625
Baby boom 1946–640.4%
Generation X 1965–8068.6%
Millennials 1981–9627%
Generation Z 1997–123.2%
2013 and later0.8%

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 Kisha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kisha has been most common in District of Columbia (6.7×), New York (2.5×), and New Jersey (2.3×), and least common in Kentucky (0.42×).

5,168 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 Kisha

2 other first names also have 5,799 people.

#3,556 Darleen · 5,799#3,556 Trinh · 5,799

Either side of Kisha

#3,555 Chauncey · 5,801#3,556 Darleen · 5,799#3,556 Trinh · 5,799#3,559 Cain · 5,794

Spelled almost the same

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

#6,738 Kiesha · 2,347#17,498 Kisa · 629#33,858 Kishia · 243#40,470 Kiasha · 184#43,791 Kish · 160#44,702 Kiosha · 154#52,133 Kissa · 109

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