Girls' name · since 1968
Keishia
258 babies named Keishia in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 258
- total births
- 1968–1996
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 40%
- born in that decade
Keishia sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 258 recorded since 1968.
Keishia has 258 recorded births among girls since 1968, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1968 to 1996.
- 258 total births
- 1968–1996 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 40% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Keishia's 258 recorded births place it above 76% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Keishia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Keishia splits its recorded history at 1983: 53% of all births land in the more recent half, 47% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1969 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1987 peak of 17 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Keishia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–1996
- Peak year (1987)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Keishia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Keishia's strongest decade.
102 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 40% of all-time use.
Keishia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 14
1960s
14 births
- 1970s
1970s
84 births
- 1980s
1980s
102 births
- 1990s
1990s
58 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 102 births (40% of all-time use).
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- Keishia's usage has stayed within range of its 1980s decade-level peak (102 total births) through the 1990s (58) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1968–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Keishia: Baby Name Since 1968 - 258 Births, Peak 1987." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/keishia. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Keishia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.