Kaisha — girls' name
1,020 babies named Kaisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Kaisha was born in this single decade.
47 babies were named Kaisha in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kaisha
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,020 babies named Kaisha between 1970 and 2023, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 47 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 348 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kaisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaisha in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kaisha 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 1,020 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.
Kaisha at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kaisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1970
- Peak year (1998)
- 47
- Annual births at peak — across 54 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,020 total births across 54 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 47 births in a single year.
Kaisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 348 births that decade — 34% of Kaisha's all-time total
Kaisha decade highlights
- Peak decade 348 births
- Runner-up 261 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kaisha's strongest decade
348 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Kaisha by state
Where Kaisha concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 30 | 2.9% |
| #2 | California | | 13 | 1.3% |
| #3 | Texas | | 10 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Washington | | 10 | 1.0% |
| #5 | Louisiana | | 9 | 0.9% |
30 of 1,020 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.9% of nationwide
- California 1.3% of nationwide
- Texas 1.0% of nationwide
- Washington 1.0% of nationwide
- Louisiana 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.