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Kamesha
How to Pronounce Kamesha
Pronounced kuh-MEE-shuh /kəˈmiː.ʃə/High
Meaning: Kamesha is an invented American name built from the popular Ka- opening and the -esha ending shared by Keisha and Aisha. It carries no single dictionary meaning; its sense is the warm, rhythmic sound its parents chose rather than a traced etymology.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Kamesha is a modern American invention rather than an inherited name. It joins the fashionable Ka- prefix to the -esha ending that Keisha, Lakeisha, and Aisha made popular, part of a creative wave of African American naming that flourished from the early 1970s onward. Its meaning lives in its sound, not a dictionary root.
The name climbed through the 1980s and crested around 1990, staying an uncommon choice borne by roughly a thousand girls in all before it trailed off in the 2000s. A Kamesha named at the peak is in her mid-thirties today, firmly a Generation X and millennial name. It has not revived, and reads as a distinctly late-twentieth-century coinage.
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What does the name Kamesha mean?
Kamesha is a coined American name with no single dictionary meaning; it blends the Ka- prefix with the -esha sound of Keisha and Aisha.
How do you pronounce Kamesha?
It's said kuh-MEE-shuh /kəˈmiː.ʃə/ — three syllables, stress on the second.
Is Kamesha a boy or girl name?
Kamesha is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Kamesha?
Kamesha was an uncommon African American coinage that crested at the turn of the nineteen-nineties and has been rare since.