Kesia
Kesia was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,074 among girls’ names; 692 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kesia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kesia?
#14,074 among girls’ names, 2025
Kesia entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,074 in 2025.
30 babies in 1977, the peak
Kesia peaked in 1977, when 30 girls were given it, #2,743 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,074 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,384 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,826 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,131 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,776 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,912 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,607 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,077 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,470 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,793 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #19,055 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,862 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,164 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,169 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,824 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,652 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,532 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,369 | 7.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,624 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,695 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,494 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,284 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,854 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,099 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,592 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,173 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,585 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,579 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,166 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,466 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,952 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,504 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,519 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,633 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,063 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,563 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,913 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,832 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,153 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,743 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,755 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,563 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,937 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,057 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,332 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,102 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,134 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,236 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,362 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,784 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,834 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,225 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,175 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kesia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kesia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kesia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kesia, and how old are they?
An estimated 662 Americans named Kesia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 874 people named Kesia (866 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 653 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above 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).
How common is the spelling Kesia?
Kesia is a less common spelling of Kecia: SSA has recorded 692 Kesia and 3,148 Kecia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,666 babies since 1880, Kesia is the fourth most given (8.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 70 babies (8.6%), again the fourth most given.
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 Kesia
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 Kesia and names like it
- Compare Kesia and KeciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKesia peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kesia since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Kesia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kesia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.