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Keitha

Girls' name

Feminine form of Keith

Keitha has been given to 1,449 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1969, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Keitha, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keitha: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Keith

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keitha means

Keitha is a feminine form of Keith.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Keitha is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Keitha → Keith. The family’s proposed meaning is “sprout, offspring”, recorded in English with the source elements kit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keith.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,449 girls were recorded with the name Keitha between 1915 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1969; its best national rank was #1,488 in 1969.

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 Keitha?

Keitha 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 Keitha 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keitha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keithas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keitha was born before 1963 — so the typical Keitha is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,056
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (303).

Is Keitha 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1969 (63)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,488
1969

Spellings of Keitha

Keitha is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 56.3% against Keitha's 0.39%.

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 Keitha is used

Across 1910–2025, Keitha was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 220,401 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Keitha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keitha around the world

Where Keitha 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
    2005–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #653
    in 1964

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Keitha 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,488
1969
Peak year
1969
63 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
1,449
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keitha

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

KeianaKeiaraKeilahKeilynKeillyKeikoKeilanyKeiryKeirahKeidyKeirraKeisyKeionaKeilanaKeiliKeilaniKeilyKeileyKeileeKeiannaKeilaKeithKeisiHertha

Sibling names for Keitha

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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