Kiesha
Kiesha was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 2,621 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,510 Americans named Kiesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,503, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
124 babies in 1979, the peak
Kiesha peaked in 1979, when 124 girls were given it, #1,099 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #18,503 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,338 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,504 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,494 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,955 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,686 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,315 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,057 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,638 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,090 | 12.8 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 13 | #7,805 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,146 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,865 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,950 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,694 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,376 | 31.3 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,168 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,740 | 24.3 |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,061 | 35.8 |
| 1991 | 99 | #1,552 | 52.8 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,646 | 47.4 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,555 | 49.4 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,651 | 44.4 |
| 1987 | 93 | #1,419 | 53.5 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,607 | 43.1 |
| 1985 | 85 | #1,465 | 49.4 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,425 | 48.7 |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,478 | 46.7 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,543 | 45.5 |
| 1981 | 98 | #1,298 | 58.8 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,347 | 56.6 |
| 1979 | 124 | #1,099 | 77.2 |
| 1978 | 122 | #1,081 | 79.6 |
| 1977 | 115 | #1,114 | 75.0 |
| 1976 | 119 | #1,039 | 81.2 |
| 1975 | 106 | #1,103 | 72.7 |
| 1974 | 107 | #1,090 | 72.9 |
| 1973 | 75 | #1,345 | 51.4 |
| 1972 | 96 | #1,142 | 63.1 |
| 1971 | 72 | #1,451 | 43.3 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,494 | 38.3 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,668 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,912 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,145 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,648 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,199 | 9.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiesha, and how old are they?
2,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,621 Americans ever recorded as Kiesha. The median Kiesha alive today is 44 years old; half are between 36 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 2,347 people named Kiesha (2,344 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,541 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 211 |
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 Kiesha born?
The states with the most babies named Kiesha are New York, Illinois and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 318 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 127 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 123 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 98 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 86 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 75 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 54 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Kiesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiesha is most over-represented in New York: since 1965 it was given 1.7 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 Kiesha 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 11,350 babies since 1880, Kiesha is the second most given (23% of them).
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 Kiesha
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 Kiesha and names like it
- Compare Kiesha and KishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKiesha peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Kiesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kiesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.