Keesha
Keesha was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,109 among girls’ names; 2,713 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Keesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 39 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keesha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keesha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Keisha.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keesha?
#16,109 among girls’ names, 2025
Keesha entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,109 in 2025.
164 babies in 1977, the peak
Keesha peaked in 1977, when 164 girls were given it, #879 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,109 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,644 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,798 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,232 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,200 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,474 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,977 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,372 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,573 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,247 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 15 | #7,243 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,799 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,985 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,962 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,469 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,176 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,353 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,943 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,131 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,960 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,621 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,523 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,269 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,007 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,939 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,305 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,578 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,580 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,468 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,592 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,497 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 102 | #1,266 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 116 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 119 | #1,132 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,091 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 164 | #879 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 125 | #1,005 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 144 | #906 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 142 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 139 | #901 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 132 | #932 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,028 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,536 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,156 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,329 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,733 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,829 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,206 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keesha, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,713 Americans ever recorded as Keesha. The median Keesha alive today is 47 years old; half are between 39 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,348 people named Keesha (2,345 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,609 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 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 993 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 173 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13 |
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 Keesha born?
The states with the most babies named Keesha are New York, Illinois and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 208 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 157 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 91 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 78 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 69 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 58 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Keesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keesha is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1964 it was given 1.1 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 Keesha 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 40,592 babies since 1880, Keesha is the fourth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 112 babies (4.5%), again the fourth most given.
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 Keesha
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 Keesha and names like it
- Compare Keesha and KeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKeesha peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keesha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Keesha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Keesha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Keesha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.