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How popular is “Kiesha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kiesha” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kiesha” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kiesha” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kiesha” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kiesha” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kiesha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kiesha” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1965 16 0.000004413 16 100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 20 0.00000592 20 100%
1969 25 0.000007194 25 100%
1970 67 0.000018577 67 100%
1971 72 0.000020977 72 100%
1972 96 0.000030544 96 100%
1973 75 0.00002486 75 100%
1974 107 0.000035197 107 100%
1975 106 0.000035106 106 100%
1976 119 0.000039218 119 100%
1977 115 0.000036203 115 100%
1978 122 0.000038439 122 100%
1979 124 0.000037271 124 100%
1980 94 0.00002729 94 100%
1981 98 0.000028329 98 100%
1982 77 0.00002195 77 100%
1983 78 0.000022522 78 100%
1984 82 0.000023504 82 100%
1985 85 0.000023815 85 100%
1986 74 0.000020804 74 100%
1987 93 0.000025793 93 100%
1988 79 0.00002138 79 100%
1989 91 0.000023671 91 100%
1990 90 0.000022771 90 100%
1991 99 0.000025415 99 100%
1992 66 0.000017182 66 100%
1993 44 0.00001167 44 100%
1994 62 0.000016677 62 100%
1995 55 0.000015018 55 100%
1996 46 0.000012612 46 100%
1997 28 0.000007723 28 100%
1998 22 0.000005981 22 100%
1999 28 0.00000758 28 100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 100%
2001 23 0.000006144 23 100%
2002 14 0.000003745 14 100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%

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