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Keesha

#16,109 in 2025Girls' name

Cassia tree, through Keisha

Keesha has been given to 2,713 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #16,109 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Keesha, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keesha: meaning, origin, and history

Cassia tree, through Keisha

coinages

What Keesha means

Keesha belongs to the name family reached through Keesha → Keisha → Kezia. Its meaning is “cassia tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Keesha is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Keesha is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keisha and Kezia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,713 girls were recorded with the name Keesha between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 1977; its best national rank was #879 in 1977.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Keesha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,109
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keesha 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keeshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keesha was born before 1979 — so the typical Keesha is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,713
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1970s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (1,269).

Is Keesha 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
3.0%
Peak was 1977 (164)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#879
1977

Spellings of Keesha

Keesha is not the most common spelling — Keisha is, with 14.7% against Keesha's 1.8%.

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 Keesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Keesha was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 106,858 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

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

Keesha around the world

Where Keesha 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 & Wales
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • France
    2000–2001
    #2,588
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1992–2005
    #2,482
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1986–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Keesha

People whose public names include Keesha, 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.

Keesha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Keesha. Linked forms have their own page here.

Keisha

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Keesha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,109
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#879
1977
Peak year
1977
164 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,713
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Keesha

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

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Names with a curve like Keesha

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

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Sibling names for Keesha

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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