Keshia
Keshia was last recorded in 2011, when 8 babies were given it; 5,386 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,180 Americans named Keshia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 37 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keshia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keshia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,774, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
511 babies in 1986, the peak
Keshia peaked in 1986, when 511 girls were given it, #426 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #12,774 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,258 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,792 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,472 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,310 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,941 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,798 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,821 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,575 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,061 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 17 | #6,339 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,539 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,693 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,068 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,992 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,399 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,006 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,476 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 169 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 252 | #811 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 385 | #592 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 496 | #479 | 0.27 |
| 1988 | 398 | #549 | 0.22 |
| 1987 | 483 | #457 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 511 | #426 | 0.30 |
| 1985 | 321 | #596 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 96 | #1,299 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,704 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 97 | #1,304 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,346 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 96 | #1,323 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 123 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 121 | #1,085 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 161 | #889 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 115 | #1,068 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 143 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 160 | #830 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 149 | #867 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 118 | #1,002 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,184 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 98 | #1,180 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,819 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,835 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,165 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,874 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keshia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keshia has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Keshia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keshia, and how old are they?
5,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 5,386 Americans ever recorded as Keshia. The median Keshia alive today is 40 years old; half are between 37 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 4,786 people named Keshia (4,778 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,235 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,470 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 171 |
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 Keshia born?
The states with the most babies named Keshia are New York, Texas and Georgia, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 396 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 289 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 259 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 252 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 249 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 230 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 195 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 165 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 161 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 157 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Keshia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keshia is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1964 it was given 2.2 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 Keshia 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 40,521 babies since 1880, Keshia is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 112 babies recorded by SSA was a Keshia (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 Keshia
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 Keshia and names like it
- Compare Keshia and KeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKeshia peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keshia since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Keshia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keshia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.