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Keziah

#767 in 2025Girls' name

Cassia tree, through Kezia

Keziah has been given to 5,086 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #767 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 354 recorded.

Babies named Keziah, 2025

1 in 9,360

Keziah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keziah: meaning, origin, and history

Cassia tree, through Kezia

Hebrew

What Keziah means

Keziah belongs to the name family reached through Keziah → Kezia. Its meaning is “cassia tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Keziah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Keziah comes through Hebrew קְצִיעָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kezia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,889 girls were recorded with the name Keziah between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 354 in 2025; its best national rank was #767 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,167 in 2020 to #767 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,420 in 2015 to #767 in 2025.

In the United States, 197 boys were recorded with the name Keziah between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,321 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,812 in 2020 to #4,321 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 Keziah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,360
354 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,540
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#767
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,492 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keziah 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,492 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keziah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keziahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keziah was born before 2014 — so the typical Keziah is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,889
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (1,580).

Is Keziah 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
+101
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+400
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+653
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (354)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#767
2025

Spellings of Keziah

Keziah is not the most common spelling — Kenia is, with 20.2% against Keziah's 9.7%.

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 Keziah is used

Across 2016–2025, Keziah was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 7,184 across all states with data. It was least common in Arkansas (1 in 16,667).

627 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 3,704
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 4,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 4,348
  4. 4Georgia1 in 5,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 5,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 5,882
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 5,882
  8. 8Virginia1 in 5,882

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.

Keziah around the world

Where Keziah 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
    #642
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1995–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #1,010
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #647
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Keziah

People whose public names include Keziah, 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.

Keziah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Keziah. Linked forms have their own page here.

KeziaKeisha

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Keziah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#767
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 400
Best rank ever
#767
2025
Peak year
2025
354 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,889
Count in 2025
354

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,321
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,491
Best rank ever
#4,321
2025
Peak year
2025
24 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Keziah

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

JaniahMaliahKeziaNeriahNariahTaliahAnaiahKaliahSariahJamiahAmiahMakiahAliahMoriahKamiahAmariahZaniahZariahSaniahSamiahAniahAzariahJariahDeliah

Names with a curve like Keziah

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

AyahSoleilArayaZoyaGiuliaMariellaViviannaArielaAndiePromiseQuincyMaddie

Sibling names for Keziah

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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