Aleisha

Where Aleisha comes from

The dictionaries list Aleisha as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern nonstandard spelling of Alicia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #5,309 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Peak, #1,216
    108 babies named Aleisha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,610.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern nonstandard spelling of Alicia.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Aleisha hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.