How popular is the name Keesha?

Keesha ranks 1,921st among girls' names in US records, with 5,871 births since 1964. Over the past decade it accounts for 226.

Is Keesha a unisex name?

No. Keesha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1977, when 246 children were given the name. It has been in use for 61 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Keysha, Keasha, Kyisha, Quisha. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,921 of girl names

Pronounced K EY1 W AY1 AY1 SH AA1 (ARPABET)

Keesha is a girls' name, and first appears in 1964. It has been given to 5,871 children — the 1,921st most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 226 births across the past decade, against a peak of 246 in a single year. That peak was in 1977.

Four other spellings are counted in that total — Keysha, Keasha, Kyisha and one more — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Keesha and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Keesha?: Keesha ranks 1,921st among girls' names in US records, with 5,871 births since 1964. Over the past decade it accounts for 226.
Is Keesha a unisex name?: No. Keesha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Keesha most popular?: 1977, when 246 children were given the name. It has been in use for 61 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Keesha spelled?: Keysha, Keasha, Kyisha, Quisha. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.