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Keesha

The girl's name Keesha has been in the national records since 1964, with 2,713 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 14,942nd. About 2,600 Keeshas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Keesha

By the numbers

Total US births
2,713
Estimated living today
2,600
Median age today
46
Peak year
1977
Best rank
878th
Rank in 2025
14,942nd
First recorded
1964

How old the living Keeshas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,713 babies given the name since 1964, about 2,600 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 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 the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Keeshas

People named Keesha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Keesha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Keesha is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (5.0×), Illinois (2.6×), Tennessee (2.2×), North Carolina (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1977

The most popular girls’ names the year Keesha peaked:

All the names of 1977

Keesha elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Keesha 71 1,979th
France girls Keesha 10 2,588th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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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.