# Keshia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/keshia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,386 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 5,380 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 23, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 27 | 3,997 |
| 1997 | 27 | 4,071 |
| 1998 | 18 | 5,697 |
| 1999 | 19 | 5,545 |
| 2000 | 17 | 6,346 |
| 2001 | 11 | 9,068 |
| 2002 | 21 | 5,579 |
| 2003 | 6 | 14,828 |
| 2005 | 11 | 9,803 |
| 2006 | 9 | 11,946 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13,316 |
| 2008 | 6 | 16,478 |
| 2009 | 5 | 18,798 |
| 2010 | 7 | 14,264 |
| 2011 | 8 | 12,781 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | 7,463 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | 1,914 |
| 1997 | 7 | 2,152 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2002 | 5 | 2,868 |

## People named Keshia

- Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress
- Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer, model, actress and songwriter
- Keshia Baker, American athletics competitor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.