Kanesha
The girl's name Kanesha has been in the national records since 1972, with 1,752 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 1,700 Kaneshas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kanesha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,752
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 950th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1972
How old the living Kaneshas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,752 babies given the name since 1972, about 1,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Kanesha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kanesha is most concentrated in Mississippi (5.8×), Alabama (3.8×), Tennessee (3.8×), Georgia (3.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Kanesha peaked:
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Kanesha against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.