Markeisha
Markeisha was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 1,296 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Markeisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 29 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markeisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markeisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,860, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
100 babies in 1992, the peak
Markeisha peaked in 1992, when 100 girls were given it, #1,557 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,860 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,155 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,871 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,721 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,139 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,184 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,682 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,718 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,598 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,775 | 13.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 26 | #4,612 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,918 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,743 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,412 | 31.6 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,464 | 29.7 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,224 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,983 | 39.8 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,956 | 39.8 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,557 | 54.2 |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,739 | 44.3 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,693 | 45.8 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,986 | 34.7 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,387 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,009 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,099 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,838 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,600 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,828 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,310 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,266 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,086 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,856 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,179 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,405 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,438 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,368 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,213 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,231 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Markeisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markeisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markeisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markeisha, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,296 Americans ever recorded as Markeisha. The median Markeisha alive today is 34 years old; half are between 29 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 966 people named Markeisha (965 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 843 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 315 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,191 babies since 1880, Markeisha is the most given (31% 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 Markeisha
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 Markeisha and names like it
- Compare Markeisha and MarkishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarkeisha peaked in 1992.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Markeisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Markeisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Markeisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.