Meaning not yet researched.
Aleisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,216 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,216 in 1980; #7,501 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aleisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,501 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #1,216.
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Aleisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,216 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 122 (1989).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Aleisha, making it the 7,501st most common girls’ name of the year, up 969 places from #8,470 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 12 girls named Aleisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,216, reached in 1980. The most girls given the name in a single year was 122, in 1989. For comparison, it was #5,660 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleisha in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 7 babies. In all, 3,013 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 961 babies named Aleisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 186 US girls were named Aleisha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Aleesha (1,942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aleighsha are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aleighsha (11).
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 Aleisha 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,501 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,470 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,875 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,723 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,495 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,673 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,161 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,177 | — | — |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,804 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,660 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,318 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,050 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,885 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,863 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,456 | — | — |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1993 | 99 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1990 | 121 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1988 | 118 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1987 | 115 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1986 | 87 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1985 | 91 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1983 | 82 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1980 | 108 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1979 | 75 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,792 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,042 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,314 | — | — |
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).