Kadesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kadesha has been given to 417 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 108 recorded.
Babies named Kadesha, 2001
1 in 748,000
Kadesha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kadesha?
Kadesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 360,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kadesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kadeshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadesha was born before 1994 — so the typical Kadesha is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 82.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 417
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 82.0% of all recorded uses (342).
Is Kadesha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (108)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 106.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kadesha
Kadesha is not the most common spelling — Lakesha is, with 11.4% against Kadesha's 0.58%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kadesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Kadesha was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 513,609 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Louisiana1 in —
- 6Mississippi1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8New Jersey1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kadesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kadesha around the world
Where Kadesha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1999–1999#3,225in 1999
- Canada1992–1992#2,118in 1992
- South Australia1999–1999#729in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kadesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kadesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kadesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.