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Keysha

#3,948 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Keisha

Keysha has been given to 1,976 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #3,948 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Keysha, 2025

1 in 89,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keysha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Keisha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keysha means

Keysha is a variant of Keisha.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Keysha → 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, 1,976 girls were recorded with the name Keysha between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 1976; its best national rank was #1,229 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,569 in 2020 to #3,948 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,577 in 2015 to #3,948 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 Keysha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,948
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keysha 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keysha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keyshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keysha was born before 1984 — so the typical Keysha is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,976
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (706).

Is Keysha 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
+303
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,621
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,629
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.2%
Peak was 1976 (92)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,229
1976

Spellings of Keysha

Keysha is not the most common spelling — Keisha is, with 15.2% against Keysha's 1.3%.

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 Keysha is used

Across 1910–2025, Keysha was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 226,999 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Keysha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keysha around the world

Where Keysha 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
    1996–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1998–2025
    #1,514
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2021
    #2,397
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2005–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Keysha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,948
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,621
Best rank ever
#1,229
1976
Peak year
1976
92 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,976
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Keysha

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

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Sibling names for Keysha

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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