Meaning not yet researched.
Aleesha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,600 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,600 in 1989. No US babies were recorded with the name Aleesha in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #1,600 in 1989.
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Aleesha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,600 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 90 (1992).
Fewer than five US girls were named Aleesha in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,600, reached in 1989. The most girls given the name in a single year was 90, in 1992. For comparison, it was #8,966 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleesha in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 1,942 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 787 babies named Aleesha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US girls were named Aleesha; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 13.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alisha (57,127 babies since 1880), Alysha (9,601 babies since 1880), Alesha (7,553 babies since 1880) and Aleisha (3,013 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aleesha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,588 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,083 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,418 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,269 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,146 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,408 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,845 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,316 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,908 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,966 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,167 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,762 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,353 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,575 | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,783 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,229 | — | — |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,825 | — | — |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,009 | — | — |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,110 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,237 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,619 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,676 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,398 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,375 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).