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Kiesha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kiesha has been given to 2,621 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1979, with 124 recorded.

Babies named Kiesha, 2010

1 in 739,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kiesha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiesha means

Kiesha is a given name.

The naming story behind Kiesha

Wikidata records Kiesha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q134568070, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,621 girls were recorded with the name Kiesha between 1965 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 124 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,039 in 1976.

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.

How common is Kiesha?

Kiesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiesha 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 2010 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 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kieshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiesha was born before 1982 — so the typical Kiesha is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,621
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (1,003).

Is Kiesha 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 1979 (124)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,039
1976

Spellings of Kiesha

Kiesha is not the most common spelling — Aisha is, with 12.6% against Kiesha's 1.2%.

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 Kiesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Kiesha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 96,884 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Kiesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kiesha around the world

Where Kiesha 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
    1996–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2008
    #439
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1992–2000
    #2,195
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1993–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA 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 Kiesha

People whose public names include Kiesha, 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.

Kiesha 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
#1,039
1976
Peak year
1979
124 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
2,621
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kiesha

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

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Names with a curve like Kiesha

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

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Sibling names for Kiesha

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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