Kecia
Kecia was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 3,148 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,900 Americans named Kecia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 49 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kecia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kecia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,049, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
560 babies in 1965, the peak
Kecia peaked in 1965, when 560 girls were given it, #392 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #17,049 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,634 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,146 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,688 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,481 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,786 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,486 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,320 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 17 | #5,590 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,663 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,066 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,341 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,457 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,439 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,296 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,066 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,001 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,774 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,817 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,201 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,926 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,585 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,578 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 94 | #1,223 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 96 | #1,172 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 95 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 118 | #1,001 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 154 | #873 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 170 | #816 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 159 | #815 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 163 | #784 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 139 | #860 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 209 | #672 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 560 | #392 | 0.32 |
| 1964 | 265 | #617 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kecia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kecia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kecia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kecia, and how old are they?
2,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,148 Americans ever recorded as Kecia. The median Kecia alive today is 56 years old; half are between 49 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 2,681 people named Kecia (2,676 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,968 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 279 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,050 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 524 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 42 |
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).
Where are babies named Kecia born?
The states with the most babies named Kecia are New York, California and New Jersey, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 322 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 224 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 154 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 131 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 129 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 113 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 112 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 91 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 86 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Kecia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kecia is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1962 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kecia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,724 babies since 1880, Kecia is the most given (47% 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 Kecia
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 Kecia and names like it
- Compare Kecia and KeyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKecia peaked in 1965.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kecia since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Kecia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kecia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.