Keziah

What Keziah means

Variant of Kezia, meaning “cassia tree”

variant of Kezia || From Hebrew קְצִיעָה (“cassia tree”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Keziah” (revision 88025455) and “Kezia” (revision 93542492), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Keziah?

US: Rising: up from #1416 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #708 in 2015, #642 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 354 girls got the name (#766 that year). First in the US records in 1972.

How common

• About 1 in 4,540 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,221 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AR (0.57 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.56 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Keziah is #766 in the US and #642 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 93.7% of US babies named Keziah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kezia60 US · 13 E&W
• Kaziah60 US
• Kazia5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Keziah

Girls

• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025
• Chaya#587“living”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*

For a brother

• Hezekiah#485“Yahu is My Strength”^*
• Isaias#426Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #426 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Abner#874“father of light”^*
• Josias#950Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1975, with 5 babies
• Moshe#435possibly “to give birth to”^*
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Keziah’s. Rank is US 2025.