Keasha
Feminine
Keasha is one of at least four spellings of a single sound, and the record holds them side by side with nothing to separate them. The syllable at the back of it is shared with an English word that turns out to be two words.
How old is the name Keasha?
Keasha first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Keasha alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 700 people named Keasha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keasha most popular?
Keasha peaked in 1972, reaching #2398 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keasha
English has two words spelled cash and they are unrelated. The one everybody uses came from Italian and French words for a money box, from the Latin for a case, and originally meant the box rather than the contents. The other came from Tamil and Sanskrit by way of Portuguese traders, and it named a specific coin: a small copper piece with a square hole in the middle, strung in hundreds on a cord, used in southern India and across China and Southeast Asia. Europeans in Asia used the word constantly, and it appears throughout colonial trade records. The two met in English, looked identical, and merged in most people's minds, so that the phrase hard cash now suggests the box word when the coin word was the harder of the two by a considerable margin.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is documented. This family was built in America from a front syllable and an ending, and the spellings multiplied faster than the name itself did. Glosses naming Arabic, Hebrew or an African language are attached afterwards, and naming a specific language is usually the sign that no source was found.
Pronouncing Keasha
KEE-shuh
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The ea is read as a long e, which is one of at least three things that pair does in English and the reason this family has so many spellings.
Nicknames for Keasha
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 197533 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2398reached in 1972
- Change vs 2006
- +60.0%8 in 2007, from 5
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.
Keashas among us
people named Keasha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Keasha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Two syllables with front stress is easy to say and hard to mishear.
- The sound is entirely familiar, so nobody has to be taught it.
- It is compact and fits any form without abbreviation.
- Keisha, Kiesha and Kesha are all commoner and will be written for it.
- The spelling has to be given aloud every time, without exception.
- No meaning can honestly be given, and the ones circulating online are invented.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keashas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Keasha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Keasha in 2025?
- Keasha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Keasha with classmates?
- Keasha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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