Geisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Geisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 157 babies named Geisha between 1967 and 2020, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Geisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Geisha performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Geisha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Geisha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Geisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 157 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.