Kaysha
Feminine
Kaysha is a spelling of Keisha, one of the clearest cases in American naming of a name arriving with no ancestry at all.
How old is the name Kaysha?
Kaysha first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Kaysha alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 1,300 people named Kaysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaysha most popular?
Kaysha peaked in 1991, reaching #2189 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 2,163 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaysha
Ours, offered as ours. What makes Keisha and its spellings interesting is that they are among the best-attested inventions in the record: the name appears, rises, peaks and falls entirely within about forty years, with no earlier trace anywhere. Most naming histories are a matter of tracing something backwards; this one can be watched forward from its beginning. The Keziah story attached to it later has no support and never did.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is documented. The Keziah reading — a daughter of Job named for cassia — circulates widely without evidence, and African attributions are equally unsupported. The name's record begins in American use in the 1960s.
Pronouncing Kaysha
KEE-shah
Two syllables, first stressed. Every spelling of the sound is said the same.
Nicknames for Kaysha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 199160 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2189reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- +357.1%32 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kaysha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Keisha in English — spelling variant
- Kiesha in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Kayshas among us
people named Kaysha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Kaysha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaysha
- #4352
- Kaysha on the 2025 chart
- #918
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaysha went to 32 girls in 2025, but Kaisha is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 42, which makes it the 918th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,434 places above the chart.
- Kaysha32
- Kaisha10
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,227 for Kaysha itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dyanna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaysha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dyanna climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dyanna's path sketches the road Kaysha is walking now.
Kaysha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kaysha is headed
Kaysha is easing off slowly — about 19% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kaysha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaysha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kay and Shay are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Keisha is the standard spelling and will be written for her.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
- The meanings circulated for it in name lists are not supported.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kayshas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Kaysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaysha?
- Kaysha is the most-used spelling in US records — 32 of the 42 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kaisha.
- How popular is the name Kaysha in 2025?
- Kaysha ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaysha?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Kaysha — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaysha with classmates?
- Kaysha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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