Keitha
Keitha was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 1,449 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Keitha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 48 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keitha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keitha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,642, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1969, the peak
Keitha peaked in 1969, when 63 girls were given it, #1,488 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #16,642 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,461 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,251 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,622 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,015 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,098 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,168 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,764 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,714 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,162 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 9 | #7,664 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,434 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,916 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,917 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,029 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,948 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,179 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,668 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,106 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,152 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,114 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,571 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,770 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,364 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,596 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,422 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,400 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,919 | 25.7 |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,488 | 37.3 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,822 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,734 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,888 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,471 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,383 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,735 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,773 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,498 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,474 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,081 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,833 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,136 | 13.2 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,983 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,249 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,554 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,873 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,800 | 16.7 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,941 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,294 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,680 | 18.7 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,156 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,692 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,354 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,015 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,773 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,111 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,900 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,226 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,359 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,815 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,389 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,841 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,985 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,309 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,060 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,472 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,433 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,880 | 9.4 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,833 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,874 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,069 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,248 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,863 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,745 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,239 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,521 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,042 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,123 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,669 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,221 | 8.3 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,016 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keitha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keitha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keitha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keitha, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 1,449 Americans ever recorded as Keitha. The median Keitha alive today is 57 years old; half are between 48 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 1,148 people named Keitha (1,130 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,151 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 67 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 358 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 196 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18 |
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 Keitha born?
The states with the most babies named Keitha are Texas, New York and Louisiana, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 155 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Keitha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keitha is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 1.6 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 Keitha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keitha
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 Keitha and names like it
- Compare Keitha and VanettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKeitha peaked in 1969.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keitha since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Keitha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Keitha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.