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 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 6,186 of them was named Alesha, which outranked 95.3% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 333,488 of them was named Alesha, which outranked 24.8% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,229Zekiel7
- #6,229Zubin7
- #6,229Zvi7
- #6,941Alesha6
- #6,941Aaran6
- #6,941Abayomi6
- #6,941Abrham6
- #7,905Aakeem5
- #7,905Aaric5
- #7,905Aaronmichael5
Tied with 963 names at #6,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.