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Kisha

Kisha is a girl's name that peaked in 1975, when it was the 421st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 6,300 Kishas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kisha boys named Kisha

By the numbers

Total US births
6,664
Estimated living today
6,300
Median age today
48
Peak year
1975
Best rank
421st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1963
Girls / boys
6,652 / 12

How old the living Kishas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,664 babies given the name since 1963, about 6,300 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kisha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kisha is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (6.7×), New York (2.5×), New Jersey (2.3×), North Carolina (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1975

The most popular girls’ names the year Kisha peaked:

All the names of 1975

Kisha elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Kisha 58 1,571st
France girls Kisha 10 4,976th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.