Keisha

given name · Latin script

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

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

/kiːʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Keisha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 58th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 15K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈40,000 people, est.

Sources
437 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

Keisha 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.

Where Keisha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈40,000 est.≈1 in 35K—Keisha9
US United States—22,1431 in 15K22KKeisha437
GB United Kingdom—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 19K4Keisha157
EG Egypt—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 44K—Keisha8
CA Canada—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 21K4Keisha159
JM Jamaica#58≈1,300 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Keisha23
EC Ecuador—1,0031 in 17K1K—10
GY Guyana#744811 in 1.6K481Keisha12

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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 name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Keïsha, Kèíšhä, Keīsha, Këîshä, Këïshä

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Keisha

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Kéïsha

  • Greek given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Kisa, Κισά, Khisa, Κισα

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    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(measured from records)

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.

  • Favorita

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Keisha,

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)

Attested in 59 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
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202563—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202041#1,503
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202432—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202413—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19895—
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20244#938
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)20114#363
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)20104#666
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)2024——

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 Keisha mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage, possibly a variant of Kezia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Keisha?
A machine transcription gives /kiːʃə/ (IPA) for English.
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 are other forms of the name Keisha?
In the etymology graph, Lakisha, Lakeisha and Kisha are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Keisha have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Keisha in China, more than in any other country we hold, 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 China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Keisha?
In the United States, the national register counted 22,143 people named Keisha in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
How common is Keisha compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Keisha is the 58th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Keisha?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keisha

The 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, “Keisha” — the 58th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Keisha parses inside a full name →