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Kessiah

Boy · keh-SY-ah · Hebrew

Kessiah is a boys' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,847th for boys in the US (28 babies).

Where does Kessiah come from?

Hebrew: perhaps a variant of Keziah, or a modern -iah coinage

Say it
keh-SY-ah

Is Kessiah a girl's or a boy's name?

Kessiah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kessiah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,847among boys
Babies in 2025
28about 1 in 61,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 983% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 28 boys in the US were named Kessiah, making it the 3,847th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. It first appears in the records in 2017.

It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most boys named Kessiah of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.

Half of all the boys named Kessiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.

2017Busiest: 28 in 20252025
Kessiah in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202528#3,847
202421#4,697
202316#5,661
20225#12,322
20216#10,794
20206#10,599
20190–
20180–
20176#10,770

Names like Kessiah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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