Kezia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kezia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kezia: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #278 in 2005, and it stood at #1,819 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#278highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#582
1997	#585
1998	#462
1999	#529
2000	#664
2001	#605
2002	#490
2003	#680
2004	#701
2005	#695
2006	#753
2007	#597
2008	#722
2009	#610
2010	#946
2011	#1043
2012	#902
2013	#1360
2014	#1299
2015	#1204
2016	#1635
2017	#1568
2018	#2187
2019	#1703
2020	#2042
2021	#1962
2022	#1685
2023	#1325
2024	#1819

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2021: #350 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1962 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #582 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2021
Highest recorded position: #278 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2004–2021).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1819 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kezia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,023 births with the name.

Kezia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kezia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#582 (1996)	#462 (1998)	#1819 (2024)	29 of 29	1,023 (1996–2024)	63 (1998)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#316 (2004)	#278 (2005)	#350 (2021)	6 of 18	23 (2004–2021)	5 (2005)

Kezia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kezia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	203	4 of 10	51
2000sbusiest	481	10 of 10	48
2010s	255	10 of 10	26
2020s	84	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 48 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births fell by 26, from 62 to 36.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kezia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #278 in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Kezia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1819	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1325	24	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1568	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1635	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1360	24	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#902	41	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1043	33	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#946	36	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#610	62	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#722	49	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#597	60	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#753	41	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#695	44	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#701	41	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#680	42	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#490	62	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#605	43	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#664	37	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#529	54	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#462	63	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#585	44	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#582	42	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#363	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#278	5	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#316	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #278, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 63 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Keyon · #1771, 18y
Keziah · #263, 30y
Khadeeja · #862, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Carine · #278, 31y
Betina · #277, 29y
Emely · #277, 31y
Erick · #280, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adrianna · #278, 30y
Charlee · #278, 29y
Kendall · #278, 30y
Reon · #278, 28y

Kezia was ranked #278 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kezia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kezia without appearing here.

Kezia moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1703 and #5591.
Rachael Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2042 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #3519.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1685 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1325 and #2689.
Karen Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2042 and #1773 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #3192.

Moved ahead of Kezia

Clodagh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1568 and #1681 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #1170.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1204 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1635 and #768.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1568 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #1436.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1703 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Kezia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Kezia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kezia went from #582 to #1819 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #278 in Northern Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kezia

Kezia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kezia across 2 official records

Kezia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Kezia across 2 official records

Kezia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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