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

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Peak · girls
1984 · 282 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,547
since 1959

Alesha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alesha has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201964peak #629, 1984girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,88513—
2024#7,25115—
2023#7,64014—
2022#6,46418—
2021#5,95520—
2020#6,32518—
2019#4,90927—
2018#4,76828—
2017#4,06636—
2016#4,42332—
2015#3,91538—
2014#5,16326—
2013#5,01327—
2012#3,64443—
2011#3,91638—
2010#3,12353—
2009#2,89260—
2008#2,44178—
2007#2,41878—
2006#2,70166—
2005#2,37974—
2004#1,99992—
2003#2,20378—
2002#1,82198—
2001#1,611114—
2000#1,511121—
1999#1,442121—
1998#1,205153—
1997#1,096171—
1996#957201—
1995#911207—
1994#791258—
1993#794256—
1992#782261—
1991#709298—
1990#693306—
1989#681298#6,9416
1988#680285—
1987#692265—
1986#750231—
1985#709244—
1984#629282—
1983#697244—
1982#753220—
1981#784208—
1980#710239—
1979#722230—
1978#936151—
1977#926151—
1976#997127—
1975#915142—
1974#1,16597—
1973#1,074107—
1972#1,28080—
1971#1,42773—
1970#1,40774—
1969#1,59156—
1968#2,05634—
1967#2,27228—
1966#1,85938—
1965#2,15430—
1964#2,41226—
1963#2,96018—
1962#4,26310—
1961#5,3097—
1960#4,18410—
1959#6,2455—
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First appearance
1959

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.

Where Alesha is popular in 1964

No state had 5 or more girls named Alesha in 1964, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alesha
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1959
  • Peaked 1984 at #629 (282 births)
  • Births halved by 1999, 15 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 22 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1975–1996
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,971
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 33.3% of all girls named Alesha (2,516) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#6,245 (1959)#6,245
1960s257#1,591 (1969)#2,906
1970s1,232#722 (1979)#1,085
1980s2,516#629 (1984)#709
1990s2,232#693 (1990)#938
2000s859#1,511 (2000)#2,198
2010s348#3,123 (2010)#4,294
2020s98#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 1964

girls
#2,412
26 births · 1 in 72,879 girls

Top girls' names in 1964

  1. #1Lisa54,270
  2. #2Mary40,985
  3. #3Susan31,515
  4. #4Karen30,243
  5. #5Patricia26,091
  6. #6Kimberly24,128
  7. #7Donna23,808
  8. #8Linda23,629
  9. #9Cynthia20,321
  10. #10Tammy20,043
  11. #2,412Alesha26
More about 1964

girls

1,894,855 girls got a published name in 1964; 1 in 72,879 of them was named Alesha, which outranked 69.1% of the 7,806 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alesha
  1. #2,348Vivienne27
  2. #2,348Zaida27
  3. #2,348Zella27
  4. #2,412Alesha26
  5. #2,412Alica26
  6. #2,412Brigit26
  7. #2,412Brook26
  8. #2,475Adelita25
  9. #2,475Alfredia25
  10. #2,475Aliza25

Tied with 62 names at #2,412; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1963
Risers
  1. ↑ 4,987Anjanette#5,891 → #904
  2. ↑ 2,403Deneen#2,619 → #216
  3. ↑ 2,162Denine#3,066 → #904
  4. ↑ 1,303Daneen#2,211 → #908
  5. ↑ 1,137Kecia#1,754 → #617
Fallers
  1. ↓ 341Leisha#993 → #1,334
  2. ↓ 320Cary#973 → #1,293
  3. ↓ 317Lisha#929 → #1,246
  4. ↓ 281Cecile#973 → #1,254
  5. ↓ 276Alexis#790 → #1,066

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1964 →