Keosha
Keosha was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 1,884 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Keosha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 31 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keosha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keosha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,972, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
126 babies in 1992, the peak
Keosha peaked in 1992, when 126 girls were given it, #1,329 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #17,972 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,076 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,787 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,488 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,363 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,106 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,637 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,875 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,998 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,060 | 17.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 41 | #3,301 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,598 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,592 | 30.0 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,244 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,849 | 45.1 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,750 | 47.2 |
| 1994 | 122 | #1,363 | 68.3 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,365 | 66.9 |
| 1992 | 126 | #1,329 | 68.3 |
| 1991 | 123 | #1,333 | 65.6 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,608 | 49.0 |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,292 | 66.2 |
| 1988 | 99 | #1,413 | 55.6 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,489 | 50.0 |
| 1986 | 86 | #1,471 | 50.1 |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,418 | 52.3 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,610 | 41.0 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,803 | 35.3 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,728 | 38.4 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,359 | 25.2 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,956 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,501 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,047 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,369 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,992 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,479 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,398 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keosha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keosha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keosha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keosha, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,884 Americans ever recorded as Keosha. The median Keosha alive today is 35 years old; half are between 31 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,418 people named Keosha (1,408 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,849 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 335 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Keosha born?
The states with the most babies named Keosha are Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 219 | not ranked | 5.5× |
| North Carolina | 173 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Texas | 130 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 111 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 102 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 100 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 69 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| South Carolina | 67 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| California | 44 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 34 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Keosha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keosha is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1974 it was given 5.5 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 Keosha 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, Keosha is the sixth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 112 babies recorded by SSA was a Keosha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Keosha
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 Keosha and names like it
- Compare Keosha and KeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKeosha peaked in 1992.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keosha since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Keosha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keosha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.