girls:
3.1k births since 1962
#3092 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1962
#4851 (37th percentile)
The name Kecia is the #4,851 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,148 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 37.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,092 (45.9% percentile) for all time with 3,148 births since 1962.
Kecia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for girls in 1962). Birth data for Kecia is available in 41 out of the 42 years between 1962 and 2003. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Kecia reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 50.8% percentile (ranked #373) with 306 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 306 births per million (ranked 50.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kecia".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Kecia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Kecia is pronounced as KEE-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-shuh, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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