Keziah
Keziah was given to 354 girls in 2025, #767 among girls’ names; 5,086 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,040 Americans named Keziah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keziah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keziah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keziah is “a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kezia.”
Borrowed from Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keziah?
#767 among girls’ names, 2025
Keziah rose from #1,420 in 2015 to #767 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.22 per 1,000.
378 babies in 2025, the peak
Keziah peaked in 2025, when 378 babies were given it (354 girls, #767 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 312 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 354 | #767 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 312 | #868 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 239 | #1,054 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 221 | #1,117 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 224 | #1,106 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 200 | #1,167 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 181 | #1,280 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 178 | #1,286 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,384 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 173 | #1,366 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,420 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,451 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,519 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,617 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,584 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,554 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,701 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 154 | #1,518 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 143 | #1,583 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,817 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 123 | #1,635 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,785 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,724 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,651 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,160 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,907 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,085 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,633 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,749 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,434 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,637 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,059 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,908 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,300 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,843 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,580 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,453 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,676 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,951 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,192 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,239 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,626 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,095 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,088 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,220 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,238 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,646 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,575 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,791 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,409 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,873 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keziah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,086 Americans recorded as Keziah, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 354 girls and 24 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keziah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keziah, and how old are they?
5,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,086 Americans ever recorded as Keziah. The median Keziah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,278 people named Keziah (3,175 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,463 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 72 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 351 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,840 |
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 Keziah born?
The states with the most babies named Keziah are Texas, Florida and California, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 38 | #790 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 33 | #550 | 1.2× |
| California | 20 | #1,258 | 0.5× |
| New York | 20 | #815 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 18 | #596 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #648 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #516 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 14 | #555 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 14 | #692 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 13 | #619 | 0.3× |
Where Keziah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keziah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1972 it was given 1.2 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 Keziah 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,782 babies since 1880, Keziah is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 378 of their 457 babies (83%), again the 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 Keziah
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 Keziah and names like it
- Compare Keziah and KeziaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKeziah peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keziah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Keziah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Keziah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.