Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Mekisha

#24,398 most common girls' name of all time · #39,592 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1973–1991

Rank among girls
#24,398
Rank overall
#39,592 of 105,966
First appeared
1973
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
106
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1974 #4,037
Best rank
#4,037 1974
Girls Boys peak 16/yr
1980

Mekisha first appears in 1973. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1991 5 — 5 #13,982
1987 5 — 5 #12,172
1984 6 — 6 #9,827
1980 9 — 9 #7,238
1979 14 — 14 #5,046
1978 14 — 14 #4,897
1977 11 — 11 #5,835
1976 8 — 8 #7,160
1975 10 — 10 #5,938
1974 16 — 16 #4,037
1973 8 — 8 #6,641