Meaning not yet researched.
Alesha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #629 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #629 in 1984; #7,909 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alesha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,909 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #629.
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Alesha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #629 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 306 (1990).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Alesha, making it the 7,909th most common girls’ name of the year, down 643 places from #7,266 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 15 girls named Alesha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #629, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 306, in 1990. For comparison, it was #3,920 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alesha in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 7,553 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,522 babies named Alesha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 221 US girls were named Alesha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 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), Aleisha (3,013 babies since 1880) and Aleesha (1,942 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 Alesha 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 | 13 | #7,909 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,266 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,655 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,467 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,961 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,333 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,773 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,430 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,170 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,020 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,916 | — | — |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 2004 | 92 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1998 | 153 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1996 | 201 | #957 | — | — |
| 1995 | 207 | #911 | — | — |
| 1994 | 258 | #791 | — | — |
| 1993 | 256 | #794 | — | — |
| 1992 | 261 | #782 | — | — |
| 1991 | 298 | #709 | — | — |
| 1990 | 306 | #693 | — | — |
| 1989 | 298 | #681 | 6 | #6,967 |
| 1988 | 285 | #680 | — | — |
| 1987 | 265 | #692 | — | — |
| 1986 | 231 | #750 | — | — |
| 1985 | 244 | #709 | — | — |
| 1984 | 282 | #629 | — | — |
| 1983 | 244 | #697 | — | — |
| 1982 | 220 | #753 | — | — |
| 1981 | 208 | #784 | — | — |
| 1980 | 239 | #710 | — | — |
| 1979 | 230 | #722 | — | — |
| 1978 | 151 | #936 | — | — |
| 1977 | 151 | #926 | — | — |
| 1976 | 127 | #997 | — | — |
| 1975 | 142 | #915 | — | — |
| 1974 | 97 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1973 | 107 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1972 | 80 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,960 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,315 | — | — |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,189 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,257 | — | — |
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).