Kersha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kersha has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1974, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Kersha, 1989
1 in 640,000
Kersha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kersha?
Kersha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1989
- 1 in 640,000
- 6 of 3,842,268 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 307,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1989
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 443,877 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kersha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 443,877 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kersha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kershas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kersha was born before 1976 — so the typical Kersha is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 80.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 31
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 80.6% of all recorded uses (25).
Is Kersha 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 1974 (7)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 4.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kersha
Kersha is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 48.8% against Kersha's <0.01%.
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.
Kersha around the world
Where Kersha 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 & Wales1996–1999#3,900in 1999
- South Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
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.
Kersha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kersha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kersha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.