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Kesha

#12,553 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Kesha has been given to 5,253 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #12,553 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 320 recorded.

Babies named Kesha, 2025

1 in 474,000

Kesha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kesha: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kesha means

Kesha has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Kesha

A separate documented entry treats Kesha as a diminutive of Innokentiy. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Kesha as a variant of Keisha. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,248 girls were recorded with the name Kesha between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 320 in 1974; its best national rank was #524 in 1974.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,758 in 2015 to #12,553 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kesha between 1979 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1979; its best national rank was #6,566 in 1979.

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 Kesha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,553
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kesha 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kesha was born before 1978 — so the typical Kesha is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (2,668).

Is Kesha 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
+1,837
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,205
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.2%
Peak was 1974 (320)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#524
1974

Spellings of Kesha

Kesha is not the most common spelling — Tessa is, with 9.5% against Kesha's 0.89%.

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 Kesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Kesha was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 37,390 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 9,091
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 14,286
  3. 3Georgia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 16,667
  5. 5Alabama1 in 20,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 20,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 25,000

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

Kesha around the world

Where Kesha 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
    1997–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    2010–2019
    #6,680
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2016
    #2,808
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1986–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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 Kesha

People whose public names include Kesha, 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.

Kesha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,553
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#524
1974
Peak year
1974
320 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,248
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,566
1979
Peak year
1979
5 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kesha

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

MishaDashaToshaAyshaNishaTishaIshaKeshiaKesiaLishaDaishaAnishaAyeshaPorshaAleshaAshaPrishaAlyshaTaishaKeeshaDayshaKishaKrishaLaisha

Names with a curve like Kesha

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

JasonDustyChandaMistiShanonTomekaMindiCarisaLashandaNicholShannanCrissy

Sibling names for Kesha

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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