Kezia
Feminine · “cassia”
Kezia is cassia — the bark that was worth carrying across the ancient world, traded from Asia into Egypt and the Levant, and burned in temples. It is a spice-route name, and in the Bible it belongs to one of Job's daughters.
How old is the name Kezia?
Kezia first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Kezia alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 2,400 people named Kezia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kezia most popular?
Kezia peaked in 1979, reaching #1952 nationally. Today it ranks #2822, 870 places below that high. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Qetsi'ah to Kezia
The story of Kezia
Cassia came from further east than anyone in the ancient Mediterranean could point to, which made it expensive and slightly mysterious; the classical writers had elaborate wrong ideas about where it grew. It appears in the Hebrew scriptures as a trade good and a fragrance. The name reached English through Puritan reading of the whole biblical text, and it crossed to America with that. In American use the affectionate form Kizzy developed and became a name in its own right, particularly in African-American families, where it has a long and independent record.
Meaning
cassia; the aromatic bark
Hebrew Qetsi'ah is cassia, the bark of a tree related to cinnamon but coarser and cheaper, used as incense and as a perfume. It is named in Exodus among the ingredients of the holy anointing oil and in Ezekiel among the goods traded through Tyre. The reading is documented and undisputed.
How the name formed
- Qetsi'ah
- Kezia
Related forms: Ketzia · Keziah · Kaziah
Pronouncing Kezia
kuh-ZY-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and an English long i there. KEZ-ee-uh, with the stress at the front, is also long established and is the more common British saying.
Nicknames for Kezia
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
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 200776 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1952reached in 1979
- Change vs 2024
- +13.2%60 in 2025, from 53
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.
Kezia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ketzia in Hebrew — same name
- Keziah in English — spelling variant
- Kaziah in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Pennsylvania.
Kezias among us
people named Kezia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was named Kezia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kezia
- #2822
- Kezia on the 2025 chart
- #564
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kezia went to 60 girls in 2025, but Keziah, Keziyah and Kesia and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 433, which makes it the 564th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,258 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,712 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 26,788 for Kezia 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 Theone test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kezia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Theone climbed just as high around 1920, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Theone's path sketches the road Kezia is walking now.
Kezia 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 Kezia is headed
Kezia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Kezia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kezia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented biblical name with a concrete, sensory meaning rather than an abstract virtue.
- Kizzy and Kez are both real short forms with independent records.
- Uncommon without being invented, which the biblical stock supplies more readily than most sources.
- Kezia, Keziah and Kaziah are all in use and the final h gets added or dropped.
- Two pronunciations are both long established, so the child will hear both.
- It is unmistakably a scriptural name and will be read as a statement of tradition.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kezias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Kezia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kezia?
- Kezia is one of 5 recorded spellings. Keziah is the more common one — 354 births in 2025 against 60 for Kezia.
- How popular is the name Kezia in 2025?
- Kezia ranks #2822 among US girl names in 2025, with 60 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kezia?
- About 1 in every 26,788 US girls born in 2025 was named Kezia — 60 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kezia with classmates?
- Kezia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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