Keysha
Keysha was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,948 among girls’ names; 1,976 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Keysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 21 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keysha?
#3,948 among girls’ names, 2025
Keysha rose from #5,577 in 2015 to #3,948 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 13.4 to 23.0 per million.
92 babies in 1976, the peak
Keysha peaked in 1976, when 92 girls were given it, #1,229 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,948 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,251 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,060 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,462 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,846 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,569 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,884 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,904 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,746 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,296 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,577 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,285 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,364 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,738 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,840 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,710 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,634 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,366 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,308 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,209 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,138 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,244 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,693 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,775 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,806 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,340 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,381 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,898 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,069 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,117 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,944 | 22.7 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,332 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,461 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,608 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,403 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,666 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,946 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,184 | 17.4 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,055 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,493 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,055 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,108 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,375 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,614 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,246 | 27.0 |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,682 | 41.0 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,635 | 43.0 |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,561 | 45.7 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,687 | 40.4 |
| 1976 | 92 | #1,229 | 62.8 |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,389 | 52.1 |
| 1974 | 85 | #1,272 | 57.9 |
| 1973 | 79 | #1,297 | 54.2 |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,321 | 50.6 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,813 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,869 | 26.9 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,422 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,240 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,163 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,162 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,142 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keysha, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,976 Americans ever recorded as Keysha. The median Keysha alive today is 41 years old; half are between 21 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,805 people named Keysha (1,801 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,779 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 791 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 473 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 353 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 287 |
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 Keysha born?
The states with the most babies named Keysha are New York, California and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 55 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 40 | #2,031 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 40 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 38 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 20 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Keysha 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 40,592 babies since 1880, Keysha is the fifth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 112 babies (33%), the second most given that year.
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 Keysha
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 Keysha and names like it
- Compare Keysha and KeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKeysha peaked in 1976.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keysha since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Keysha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Keysha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.