Kezia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The second of the three daughters of Job
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 37 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/cɛziɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kezia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 16K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 5.2K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
13,270 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The second of the three daughters of Job.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kezia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kezia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 13,270 | 1 in 16K | 13K | Kezia | 97 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Kezia | 3 |
| KE Kenya | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kezia | 3 |
| US United States | 2,186 | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | Kezia | 89 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Kezia | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 145 | 1 in 5.2K | 145 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Kezia | 3 |
13,270 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kezia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Hebrew: variety of cinnamon.
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In German, ) Keziah [ke'zi:a], ['ke:t§ia]: aus dem EngHschen [ki'zaia] übernommener weibl. Vom. bibHscher Herkunft (hebr. qesi'ä »Kassia«, eine Heil- und Gewürzpflanze). So heißt im Alten Testament eine Tochter
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Hebrew, Variety Of Cinnamon
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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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Clara Keziah Leavittb. 1864USnot in their usual nameAmerican botanist and botanical collector (1864-1943)
- Lilian Ada Kezia Chaselingb. 1905AUAustralian architect, journalist, teacher and entomological collector
- Kezia Purickb. 1958AUAustralian politician
- Keziah Jonesb. 1968NGnot in their usual nameNigerian musician
- Kezia Dugdaleb. 1981GBformer Scottish politician (born 1981)
- Kezia Warouwb. 1991IDIndonesian model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Kezia Karamoyb. 1993IDIndonesian singer
- Kizzy Edgellb. 2002GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor
- Kezia Asiedua SanieGHGhanaian lawyer and philanthropist
- Kezia PritchardAUAustralian association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,395 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.4K | #2,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #7,085 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 577 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 145 | #450 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64 | #1,395 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 60 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21 | #7,085 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kezia mean, and where does it come from?
- The second of the three daughters of Job. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kezia?
- A machine transcription gives /cɛziɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Kezia a male or female name?
- Kezia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What are other forms of the name Kezia?
- In the etymology graph, Keisha, Lakeisha and Kizzy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kezia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kezia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kezia.
- Where is Kezia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kezia is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kezia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 13,270 people named Kezia in 2022, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kezia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keziaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kezia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.