Girls' name · since 1973
Ketia
Ketia has 50 recorded births since 1973 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1986 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 50
- total births
- 1973–1999
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 46%
- born in that decade
50 girls have been named Ketia since 1973, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Ketia has 50 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 1999.
- 50 total births
- 1973–1999 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 46% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Ketia's 50 recorded births place it above 51% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Ketia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Ketia's full recorded timeline at 1986, 56% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 44% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1978, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1986 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Ketia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1999
- Peak year (1986)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Ketia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Ketia's strongest decade.
23 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Ketia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
17 births
- 1980s
1980s
23 births
- 1990s
1990s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 23 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Ketia's usage has stayed within range of its 1980s decade-level peak (23 total births) through the 1990s (10) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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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, 1973–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Ketia: Baby Name Since 1973 - 50 Births, Peak 1986." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/ketia. 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 Ketia 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.