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Kelsha

Girls’ name Recorded 1975-2001

Kelsha was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 139 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

No sourced meaning is on record for Kelsha: Wiktionary has no entry for it as a given name.

Babies named Kelsha each year, first recorded in 1975
Kelsha, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.24681019701990201020251981 peak: 10
Kelsha, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.24681019701990201020251981 peak: 10
Kelsha, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.24681019701990201020251981 peak: 10
Kelsha, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.24681019701990201020251981 peak: 10

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Births of Kelsha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

How popular is Kelsha?

Unranked in 2025

Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,444, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.

10 babies in 1981, the peak

Kelsha peaked in 1981, when 10 girls were given it, #6,559 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.

Kelsha by year
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
20016#14,4443.3
20007#12,4643.9
199910#9,1505.6
19986#13,2583.4
19977#11,4354.0
199610#8,4875.7
19958#10,0344.5
19946#12,5753.4
19935#14,5722.8
19907#10,7683.7
Every recorded year (20)
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
19897#10,2353.8
19886#11,0283.4
19875#12,1912.9
19868#8,0844.7
19855#11,4952.9
19828#7,8044.7
198110#6,5596.0
19786#9,0553.9
19776#8,9693.9
19756#8,4724.1

Download Kelsha’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Kelsha a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Kelsha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Kelsha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Kelsha, and how old are they?

An estimated 135 Americans named Kelsha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

The 2020 Census counted 147 people named Kelsha (142 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.

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

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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kelsha

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1970-2025
Donisha1,276
Jameka1,631
Markesha1,000
Shanea1,131
Jamika1,379
Shanae3,471

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.

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