Kisha
Kisha was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 6,664 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,320 Americans named Kisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 44 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,828, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
483 babies in 1977, the peak
Kisha peaked in 1977, when 483 babies were given it (476 girls, #424 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,828 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,349 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,511 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,418 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,749 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,976 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,417 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,656 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,030 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,869 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #11,983 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,938 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,600 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,623 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,002 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,500 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,801 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,272 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,812 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,651 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,476 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,189 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,952 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,987 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,516 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,424 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,411 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,398 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,771 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,755 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 102 | #1,387 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 103 | #1,330 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 137 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,120 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 139 | #1,023 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 208 | #768 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 217 | #764 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 316 | #585 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 372 | #519 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 362 | #527 | 0.23 |
| 1978 | 394 | #493 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 476 | #424 | 0.31 |
| 1976 | 378 | #484 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 478 | #421 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 440 | #440 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 424 | #444 | 0.29 |
| 1972 | 319 | #530 | 0.21 |
| 1971 | 318 | #560 | 0.19 |
| 1970 | 222 | #702 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 152 | #843 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 87 | #1,161 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 53 | #1,549 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,998 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,584 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,177 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,600 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kisha has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kisha, and how old are they?
6,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 6,664 Americans ever recorded as Kisha. The median Kisha alive today is 49 years old; half are between 44 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 5,799 people named Kisha (5,780 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 212 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56 |
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 Kisha born?
The states with the most babies named Kisha are New York, California and North Carolina, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,005 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 449 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 340 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 328 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 300 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 287 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 248 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 239 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 212 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 206 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Kisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kisha is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1963 it was given 4.2 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 Kisha 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, Kisha is the most given (59% 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 Kisha
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 Kisha and names like it
- Compare Kisha and KieshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKisha peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Kisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.