Markesha
Markesha was last recorded in 2007, when 9 babies were given it; 1,000 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,304, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 1991, the peak
Markesha peaked in 1991, when 54 girls were given it, #2,371 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #12,304 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,017 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,739 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,362 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,152 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,238 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,580 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,850 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,671 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,740 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 46 | #2,719 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,398 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,191 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,858 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,553 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,595 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,371 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,717 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,388 | 26.6 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,388 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,378 | 25.3 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,704 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,631 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,760 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,383 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,624 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,204 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,180 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,510 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,546 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,444 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,268 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,804 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,151 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,025 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,991 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Markesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 971 Americans named Markesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 764 people named Markesha (759 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 979 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,191 babies since 1880, Markesha is the third most given (24% 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 Markesha
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 Markesha and names like it
- Compare Markesha and MarkeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarkesha peaked in 1991.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Markesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Markesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Markesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.