Keisha

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Keisha is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage, possibly a variant of Kezia.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.6K◐
  • JMJamaica1 in 2.9K
  • USUnited States1 in 15K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈24K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
390 ●

254K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage, possibly a variant of Kezia.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Keisha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—22,102226K rec.1 in 15K22KKeisha390
GB United Kingdom—9,0908.5K rec.—4Keisha121
CA Canada—4,5933.2K rec.—4Keisha120
AU Australia—3,3503K rec.—3Keisha89
MY Malaysia—3,148602 rec.——Keisha29
JM Jamaica#411,6251.6K rec.——Keisha22
PH Philippines—1,396798 rec.——Keisha58
EC Ecuador—1,003△9 rec.1 in 17K1KKeisha11
IT Italy—640647 rec.—listedKeisha11
DE Germany—633612 rec.—listedKeisha35
GY Guyana#66481682 rec.1 in 1.6K481Keisha11
EG Egypt—350348 rec.——Keisha7

Roughly 22K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 15K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English272K82%
  • 16K5%
  • Spanish11K3%
  • Indonesian3.2K1%
  • French2.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English272,24782%
15,5685%
Spanish11,3413%
Indonesian3,2401%
French2,3251%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Keisha is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name17K records spelled Keisha11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Ecuador, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Këïshä, Keīsha, Kèíšhä, Keïsha, Këîshä

  • Indonesian given name5.2K records spelled Keisha3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Keisha

  • Swahili given name1.6K records spelled Keisha4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Kenya

    Also written Kéïsha

  • Greek given name320 records spelled Keisha5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Kisa, Khisa, Κισα, Κισά

  • Russian given name311 records spelled Keisha8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Кейша, Кеиша, Keyshia

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Keisha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1980200020201.1K · 1977

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Keisha in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1961–2025
Yearrecords
19616
19625
19637
196448
196590
196689
1967145
1968184
1969330
1970490
1971647
1972804
1973963
1974979
19751,015
19761,027
19771,050
1978984
1979938
1980883
1981720
1982666
1983582
1984519
1985666
1986733
1987752
1988651
1989710
1990657
1991590
1992458
1993396
1994361
1995333
1996360
1997259
1998200
1999169
2000136
2001133
2002125
200376
200495
200590
2006103
200776
200886
200951
201060
201173
201261
201370
201451
201559
201627
201737
201836
201944
202045
202149
202242
202370
202469
202563

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 65 years between 1961–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Keisha Jackson, b. 1965Keisha Lance Bottoms, b. 1970Keisha Morris, b. 1974Keisha Anderson, b. 1974Keyshia Cole, b. 1981Keisha Buchanan, b. 1984Keisha Kane, b. 1988Keisha Castle-Hughes, b. 1990Keisha Grey, b. 1994Keisha Fatimah Az-Zahra, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 56 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Keisha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202022K#1,503
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241K#907
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025481#196
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)1996121—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—117#5,035
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—115#1,988
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—97#16,177
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—83#8,141
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202580#37
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—76#9,337
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202563—
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025202552#81

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 344 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Keisha?
We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Keisha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Keisha have the most bearers?
We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Keisha in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled keisha.
Where is Keisha most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keisha is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Keisha compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Keisha is the 41st most common given name of 20,217 given names recorded there.
Is Keisha a male or female name?
Keisha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Keisha mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage, possibly a variant of Kezia.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Keisha” — the 41st most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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