Kanesha
Kanesha was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 1,752 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Kanesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 31 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kanesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kanesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,209, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
198 babies in 1990, the peak
Kanesha peaked in 1990, when 198 girls were given it, #950 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,209 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,028 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,189 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,839 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,003 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,145 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,474 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,041 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,347 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,501 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 30 | #4,115 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,237 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,862 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,294 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,923 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,734 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 101 | #1,534 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,668 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,462 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 165 | #1,089 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 198 | #950 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,653 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,895 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,438 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,560 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,848 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,112 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,065 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,242 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,407 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,027 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,973 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,688 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,869 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,683 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,569 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,674 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kanesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kanesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kanesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kanesha, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,752 Americans ever recorded as Kanesha. The median Kanesha alive today is 35 years old; half are between 31 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,476 people named Kanesha (1,471 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,718 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 176 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 295 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,993 babies since 1880, Kanesha is the second most given (25% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kanesha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kanesha and names like it
- Compare Kanesha and KanishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKanesha peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kanesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kanesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kanesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.