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Kisha

Girls' name

Variant of Keisha

Kisha has been given to 6,664 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1975, with 478 recorded.

Babies named Kisha, 2024

1 in 478,000

Kisha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kisha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Keisha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kisha means

Kisha is a variant of Keisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kisha is used in African American.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɪʃ.ə/ for Kisha.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kisha → 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, 6,652 girls were recorded with the name Kisha between 1963 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 478 in 1975; its best national rank was #421 in 1975.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Kisha between 1977 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1977; its best national rank was #4,889 in 1977.

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 Kisha?

Kisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kisha 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kisha was born before 1977 — so the typical Kisha is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
57.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,652
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (3,811).

Is Kisha 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 1975 (478)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#421
1975

Spellings of Kisha

Kisha is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 56.1% against Kisha's 0.39%.

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 Kisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Kisha was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 27,327 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 4,348
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 14,286
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 14,286
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 14,286
  6. 6Maryland1 in 16,667
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Georgia1 in 20,000

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

Kisha around the world

Where Kisha 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
    1997–2014
    #4,003
    in 2014
  • France
    2001–2010
    #4,976
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1992–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1972–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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.

Kisha 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
#421
1975
Peak year
1975
478 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
6,652
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,889
1977
Peak year
1977
7 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kisha

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

ToshaKeshaTishaMishaDashaAyshaAyeshaNishaAleshaIshaLishaAshaDaishaAlyshaAnishaPorshaIeshaAishaElishaPrishaTaishaKeeshaDayshaTasha

Names with a curve like Kisha

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

ChandaMistiTomekaAnitraShandaJasonShondaTomikaLashawnMindiShanonAmi

Sibling names for Kisha

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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