Keysha
Feminine
Keysha is a spelling of Keisha, one of the genuinely new American names of the 1970s — it appeared, rose fast and has no ancestry anyone has traced.
How old is the name Keysha?
Keysha first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Keysha alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 1,900 people named Keysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keysha most popular?
Keysha peaked in 1976, reaching #1225 nationally. Today it ranks #3903, 2,678 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keysha
Ours, offered as ours. Keisha arrived in the American records in the 1960s, rose through the 1970s and was gone from the top hundred within twenty years — a complete life cycle inside one generation, which happens to very few names. It is one of the clearest cases of a naming tradition making something from nothing but sound and having it work. The Keziah reading is offered everywhere and has no evidence; the invention is the real story.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is documented. Readings connecting it to Hebrew Keziah, a daughter of Job named for the cassia spice, or to an African source, circulate without support. The name's record begins in the 1960s in American use.
Pronouncing Keysha
KEE-shah
Two syllables, first stressed. Keysha and Keisha are said identically.
Nicknames for Keysha
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
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 197692 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1225reached in 1976
- Change vs 2024
- +8.8%37 in 2025, from 34
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.
Keysha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Keisha in English — spelling variant
- Kesha in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Florida, New Jersey.
Keyshas among us
people named Keysha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was named Keysha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Keysha
- #3903
- Keysha on the 2025 chart
- #860
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Keysha went to 37 girls in 2025, but Keisha is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 100, which makes it the 860th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,043 places above the chart.
- Keisha63
- Keysha37
About 1 girl in 16,073 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 43,440 for Keysha 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 Randie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keysha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Randie climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Randie's path sketches the road Keysha is walking now.
Keysha 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 Keysha is headed
Keysha looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 27% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. 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.
Keysha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keysha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Shay is a complete short form in its own right.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Keisha is the more common spelling and will be written for her.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
- There is no documented meaning; the readings offered in name lists are unsupported.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keyshas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Keysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Keysha?
- Keysha is one of 2 recorded spellings. Keisha is the more common one — 63 births in 2025 against 37 for Keysha.
- How popular is the name Keysha in 2025?
- Keysha ranks #3903 among US girl names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keysha?
- About 1 in every 43,440 US girls born in 2025 was named Keysha — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keysha with classmates?
- Keysha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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