Kyisha
Kyisha was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 216 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,739, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1979, the peak
Kyisha peaked in 1979, when 16 girls were given it, #4,508 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #16,739 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,720 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,075 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,809 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,234 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,143 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,484 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,103 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,595 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,395 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 7 | #9,297 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,605 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,975 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,760 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,005 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,368 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,424 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,382 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,508 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,164 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,953 | 4.6 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,057 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 209 Americans named Kyisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 34 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 181 people named Kyisha (181 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Kyisha?
Kyisha is a less common spelling of Kisha: SSA has recorded 216 Kyisha and 6,664 Kisha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,350 babies since 1880, Kyisha is the seventh most given (1.9% 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 Kyisha
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 Kyisha and names like it
- Compare Kyisha and KishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKyisha peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Kyisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kyisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.