Alesha
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 282 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,547since 1959
Alesha over time
Rank among girls' names. Alesha has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,441 | 78 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,418 | 78 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,701 | 66 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,999 | 92 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,203 | 78 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,611 | 114 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,511 | 121 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,442 | 121 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,205 | 153 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,096 | 171 | — | |
| 1996 | #957 | 201 | — | |
| 1995 | #911 | 207 | — | |
| 1994 | #791 | 258 | — | |
| 1993 | #794 | 256 | — | |
| 1992 | #782 | 261 | — | |
| 1991 | #709 | 298 | — | |
| 1990 | #693 | 306 | — | |
| 1989 | #681 | 298 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #680 | 285 | — | |
| 1987 | #692 | 265 | — | |
| 1986 | #750 | 231 | — | |
| 1985 | #709 | 244 | — | |
| 1984 | #629 | 282 | — | |
| 1983 | #697 | 244 | — | |
| 1982 | #753 | 220 | — | |
| 1981 | #784 | 208 | — | |
| 1980 | #710 | 239 | — | |
| 1979 | #722 | 230 | — | |
| 1978 | #936 | 151 | — | |
| 1977 | #926 | 151 | — | |
| 1976 | #997 | 127 | — | |
| 1975 | #915 | 142 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,165 | 97 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,074 | 107 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,280 | 80 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,427 | 73 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,407 | 74 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,591 | 56 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,056 | 34 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,272 | 28 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,859 | 38 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,184 | 10 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alesha! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alesha
- 634 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #7,885)
- 1,560 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #7,885)
- 3,970 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 250 spots in 1975 (#1,165 → #915)
- Biggest drop: 139 spots in 1997 (#957 → #1,096)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1984 at #629 (282 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1975–1996
- Highest: 1 in 5,971 girls born in 1984 were named Alesha (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Alesha (2,516) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 257 | #1,591 (1969) | #2,906 |
| 1970s | 1,232 | #722 (1979) | #1,085 |
| 1980s | 2,516 | #629 (1984) | #709 |
| 1990s | 2,232 | #693 (1990) | #938 |
| 2000s | 859 | #1,511 (2000) | #2,198 |
| 2010s | 348 | #3,123 (2010) | #4,294 |
| 2020s | 98 | #5,955 (2021) | #6,920 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alesha in 1969
Top girls' names in 1969
More about 1969
girls
1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 30,125 of them was named Alesha, which outranked 81.7% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,572Spring57
- #1,572Stacee57
- #1,572Thomasina57
- #1,591Alesha56
- #1,591Cecile56
- #1,591Corine56
- #1,591Daryl56
- #1,609Bari55
- #1,609Cecily55
- #1,609Chantell55
Tied with 17 names at #1,591; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.