Girls' name · since 1973
Kerisha
146 babies named Kerisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 146
- total births
- 1973–2000
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 45%
- born in that decade
Kerisha sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 146 recorded since 1973.
Kerisha has 146 recorded births among girls since 1973, 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 1973 to 2000.
- 146 total births
- 1973–2000 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 45% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kerisha's 146 recorded births place it above 68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kerisha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kerisha's SSA record in two at 1986 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1975, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1989 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kerisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–2000
- Peak year (1989)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Kerisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kerisha's strongest decade.
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.
Kerisha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
30 births
- 1980s
1980s
65 births
- 1990s
1990s
46 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 65 births (45% of all-time use).
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- Kerisha's decade-level peak was the 1980s (65 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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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, 1973–2000 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kerisha: Baby Name Since 1973 - 146 Births, Peak 1989." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kerisha. 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 Kerisha 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.