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Kecia

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kecia has been given to 3,148 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1965, with 560 recorded.

Babies named Kecia, 2003

1 in 760,000

Kecia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kecia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kecia means

Kecia is a given name.

The naming story behind Kecia

Wikidata records Kecia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q99584961, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,148 girls were recorded with the name Kecia between 1962 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 560 in 1965; its best national rank was #392 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kecia?

Kecia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only
1 in 365,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kecia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kecia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kecias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kecia was born before 1970 — so the typical Kecia is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,148
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (1,549).

Is Kecia 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1965 (560)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#392
1965

Kecia’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1965, 560 girls were named Kecia — about #392 that year — roughly 4× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Kecia

Kecia is not the most common spelling — Lucia is, with 10.6% against Kecia's 0.56%.

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 Kecia is used

Across 1910–2025, Kecia was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 71,267 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 25,000
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7New York1 in 33,333
  8. 8Florida1 in 50,000

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. Kecia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kecia around the world

Where Kecia 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.

  • Canada
    1992–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kecia

People whose public names include Kecia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kecia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#392
1965
Peak year
1965
560 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
3,148
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kecia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kecia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kecia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kecia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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