Girl · Modern American coinage
Keisha
Say it: KEE-shah
Meaning
Uncertain. Possibly a shortened form of Lakeisha, or linked to the biblical Keziah (Hebrew 'cassia'), but no derivation is proven.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Common from the late 1960s into the 1980s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1970s
In the United States
- 22,040 babies given this name since 1961
- At its height in 1976, about 1 in 1,400 girls
- 45 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Kisha, Keshia, Kesha
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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