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Keshia

Girls' name

Variant of Keisha

Keshia has been given to 5,386 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1986, with 511 recorded.

Babies named Keshia, 2011

1 in 457,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keshia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Keisha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keshia means

Keshia is a variant of Keisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Keshia is used in African American.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Keshia → Keisha → Kezia. The family’s meaning is “cassia tree”, recorded in English with the source elements קְצִיעָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,380 girls were recorded with the name Keshia between 1964 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 511 in 1986; its best national rank was #426 in 1986.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Keshia between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,456 in 1989.

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 Keshia?

Keshia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 457,000
8 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 220,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
316,937 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keshia 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 2011 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 316,937 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keshia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keshias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keshia was born before 1986 — so the typical Keshia is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,380
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (2,655).

Is Keshia 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 1986 (511)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#426
1986

Spellings of Keshia

Keshia is not the most common spelling — Keisha is, with 18.3% against Keshia's 4.4%.

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 Keshia is used

Across 1910–2025, Keshia was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 38,030 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 14,286
  2. 2Georgia1 in 16,667
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 16,667
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 16,667
  5. 5Alabama1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 20,000
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 25,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 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. Keshia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keshia around the world

Where Keshia 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
    1996–2002
    #2,868
    in 2002
  • France
    1988–2007
    #6,512
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1985–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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 Keshia

People whose public names include Keshia, 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.

Keshia 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
#426
1986
Peak year
1986
511 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
5,380
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,456
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keshia

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

KeshaKesleyCinthiaDelphiaKathiaAlethiaAshiaSynthiaKesiaMakhiaZophiaTashiaAlahiaKestrelIeshiaKesleeAleshiaAlishiaToshiaLakeshiaAmahiaLethiaDashiaApphia

Names with a curve like Keshia

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

ShanikaShamikaShamekaTaneshaShanteMatthewShavonCasieTenishaShanitaShastaJoshua

Sibling names for Keshia

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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