Kesa
Kesa was last recorded in 1985, when 5 babies were given it; 135 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,510, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1978, the peak
Kesa peaked in 1978, when 14 girls were given it, #4,799 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #11,510 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,614 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,631 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,743 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,751 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,572 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,799 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,932 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,918 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,988 | 8.2 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 | #7,237 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,688 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,681 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,939 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,489 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,011 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kesa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kesa, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Kesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 46 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Kesa (232 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Kesa
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.