Girls' name · since 1973
Kesi
Kesi has 221 recorded births since 1973 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1979 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 221
- total births
- 1973–2013
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 33%
- born in that decade
Kesi sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 221 recorded since 1973.
Kesi has 221 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 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 2013.
- 221 total births
- 1973–2013 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 33% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kesi's 221 recorded births place it above 74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kesi's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kesi's SSA record in two at 1992 and the more recent half accounts for 46% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 54%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1982, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1979 peak of 18, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kesi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–2013
- Peak year (1979)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Kesi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kesi's strongest decade.
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 33% of all-time use.
Kesi births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
74 births
- 1980s
1980s
36 births
- 1990s
1990s
51 births
- 2000s
2000s
49 births
- 2010s 11
2010s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 74 births (33% of all-time use).
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- Kesi's decade-level peak was the 1970s (74 total births); usage has since declined to 11 in the 2010s -- 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, 1973–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kesi: Baby Name Since 1973 - 221 Births, Peak 1979." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kesi. 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 Kesi 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.