Kanesha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kanesha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,752 babies named Kanesha between 1972 and 2012, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kanesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 198 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kanesha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 953 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kanesha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 97 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kanesha in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kanesha 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 1,752 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.