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Keturah

#4,818 in 2025Girls' name

Incense

Keturah has been given to 3,541 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #4,818 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 96 recorded.

Babies named Keturah, 2025

1 in 118,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keturah: meaning, origin, and history

Incense

Hebrew

What Keturah means

Keturah means “incense”.

Origin, language, and formation

Keturah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Keturah comes through Hebrew קְטוּרָה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Keturah is pronounced /kɪˈtʊər.ə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,541 girls were recorded with the name Keturah between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 96 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,339 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,051 in 2020 to #4,818 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,563 in 2015 to #4,818 in 2025.

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 Keturah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,818
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keturah 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keturah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keturahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keturah was born before 1993 — so the typical Keturah is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,372
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (784).

Is Keturah 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
−1,336
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−767
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,255
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.2%
Peak was 1992 (96)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,339
1982

Where Keturah is used

Across 1910–2025, Keturah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 101,958 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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

Keturah around the world

Where Keturah 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1957–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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

Notable people named Keturah

People whose public names include Keturah, 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.

Keturah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,818
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 767
Best rank ever
#1,339
1982
Peak year
1992
96 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,541
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Keturah

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

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Names with a curve like Keturah

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

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Sibling names for Keturah

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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