Kadisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kadisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 241 babies named Kadisha between 1976 and 2017, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kadisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 42 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kadisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 150 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kadisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kadisha in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kadisha 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 241 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.