Kaysha
Kaysha was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,407 among girls’ names; 1,322 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Kaysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaysha?
#4,407 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaysha rose from #9,807 in 2015 to #4,407 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 19.9 per million.
60 babies in 1991, the peak
Kaysha peaked in 1991, when 60 girls were given it, #2,198 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,407 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,787 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,270 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,715 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,828 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,905 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,877 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,184 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,148 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,320 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,807 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,543 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,933 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,732 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,779 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,710 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,874 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,318 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,993 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,112 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,031 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,220 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,262 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,925 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,902 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,836 | 28.1 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,515 | 32.1 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,440 | 32.3 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,262 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,730 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,174 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,599 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,465 | 28.2 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,299 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,198 | 32.0 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,380 | 27.4 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,226 | 29.3 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,610 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,212 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,693 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,351 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,068 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,995 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,061 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,712 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,090 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,504 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,350 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,768 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,657 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,735 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,980 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,006 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,896 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaysha, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,322 Americans ever recorded as Kaysha. The median Kaysha alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,059 people named Kaysha (1,055 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 72 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 536 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 535 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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 5,045 babies since 1880, Kaysha is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 64 babies (50%), the most given that year.
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 Kaysha
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 Kaysha and names like it
- Compare Kaysha and KashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaysha peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaysha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kaysha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kaysha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.