girls:
22.2k births since 1961
#960 (83rd percentile)
boys:
44 births since 1973
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
22.2k births since 1961
#1705 (78th percentile)
The name Keisha is the #1,705 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,202 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 78.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #960 (83.2% percentile) for all time with 22,158 births since 1961. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1973.
Keisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1973 for boys).
The name Keisha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Keisha reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 70.4% percentile (ranked #228) with 638 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 653 births per million (ranked 70.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Keisha ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 6.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Keisha reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #649) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keisha".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Keisha is pronounced as KEE-shuh, which has 2 syllables.
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