Keziah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Keziah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #263 in 2017, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#263highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#643
1997	#598
1998	#628
1999	#605
2000	#571
2001	#493
2002	#547
2003	#538
2004	#601
2005	#645
2006	#526
2007	#570
2008	#602
2009	#614
2010	#773
2011	#702
2012	#902
2013	#900
2014	#779
2015	#708
2016	#804
2017	#549
2018	#778
2019	#778
2020	#771
2021	#918
2022	#1081
2023	#921
2024	#826

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 2023: #391 among girls in Northern Ireland, #921 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #643 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 recorded1998–2023
Highest recorded position: #263 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2017 (recorded 1998–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Keziah appears in 4 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 1,448 births with the name.

Keziah across 4 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.

Keziah'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	#643 (1996)	#493 (2001)	#826 (2024)	29 of 29	1,448 (1996–2024)	79 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#263 (2017)	#391 (2023)	4 of 26	15 (1998–2023)	6 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#606 (2001)	#606 (2001)	#885 (2025)	4 of 25	13 (2001–2025)	4 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#3865 (2010)	#3865 (2010)	#4001 (2022)	7 of 13	24 (2010–2022)	4 (2010)

Keziah 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 Keziah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	163	4 of 10	41
2000sbusiest	572	10 of 10	57
2010s	514	10 of 10	51
2020s	199	5 of 10	40

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 57 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 31, from 48 to 79.

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

Keziah 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #263 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Keziah'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	#826	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#921	38	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1081	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#918	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#778	48	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#778	49	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#549	79	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#804	48	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#708	56	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#779	50	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#900	41	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#902	41	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#702	55	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#773	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#614	61	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#602	62	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#570	63	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#526	69	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#645	48	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#601	51	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#538	57	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#547	54	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#493	60	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#571	47	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#605	43	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#628	40	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#598	43	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#643	37	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #263, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 79 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 5 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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Cassius · #263, 29y
Olivia-Rose · #263, 25y
Sapphire · #263, 29y
Isobelle · #265, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aminah · #263, 30y
Cassius · #263, 29y
Coran · #263, 20y
Olivia-Rose · #263, 25y

Keziah was ranked #263 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. 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.

Keziah 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 Keziah without appearing here.

Keziah moved ahead of

Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4702 and #1745 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #4789.
Christine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1081 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #921 and #1640.
Jane Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1081 and #1023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #921 and #1469.
Christina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #921 and #865 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #826 and #1302.

Moved ahead of Keziah

Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3865 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #1398.
Garry Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3865 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #2613.
Gunnar Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3865 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #4685 and #3822.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #702 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #902 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Keziah

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keziah went from #493 to #826 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.

Moved the same way as Keziah

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Keziah went from #643 to #921 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Keziah went from #643 to #921 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Keziah went from #643 to #921 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Keziah went from #643 to #918 and Carol from #802 to #3519.

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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #263 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Keziah

Keziah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keziah across 4 official records

Keziah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keziah appears in

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Keziah at a glance

Keziah across 4 official records

Keziah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keziah appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Keziah and the names beside it

Keziah moved ahead of

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