Kesia
#14,074 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kesia has been given to 692 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #14,074 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Kesia, 2025
1 in 553,000
Kesia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kesia?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,074
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kesia sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kesia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kesias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kesia was born before 1984 — so the typical Kesia is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 692
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (208).
Is Kesia 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,248
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 20.0%
- Peak was 1977 (30)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kesia
Kesia is not the most common spelling — Celia is, with 7.9% against Kesia's 0.10%.
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 Kesia is used
Across 1910–2025, Kesia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 998,564 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4New 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. Kesia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kesia around the world
Where Kesia 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 & Wales1996–2023#5,688in 2023
- France1991–2024#6,927in 2024
- Canada1993–1995#2,576in 1995
- South Australia2002–2012#871in 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.
Kesia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kesia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kesia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.