Aleisha
Aleisha was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,499 among girls’ names; 3,013 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Aleisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aleisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aleisha is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern nonstandard spelling of Alicia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aleisha?
#7,499 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleisha fell from #5,658 in 2015 to #7,499 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 8.7 per million.
122 babies in 1989, the peak
Aleisha peaked in 1989, when 122 girls were given it, #1,285 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,499 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,465 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,872 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,718 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,490 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,669 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,157 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,173 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,150 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,802 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,658 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,316 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,046 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,881 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,860 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,865 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,940 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,455 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,290 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,581 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,826 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,989 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,882 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,671 | 31.7 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,567 | 32.8 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,233 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,608 | 30.4 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,458 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,020 | 40.2 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,863 | 44.5 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,120 | 35.8 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,683 | 49.3 |
| 1993 | 99 | #1,563 | 54.7 |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,658 | 49.4 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,513 | 54.4 |
| 1990 | 121 | #1,326 | 63.7 |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,285 | 66.2 |
| 1988 | 118 | #1,248 | 66.3 |
| 1987 | 115 | #1,234 | 66.1 |
| 1986 | 87 | #1,459 | 50.7 |
| 1985 | 91 | #1,400 | 52.9 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,550 | 43.4 |
| 1983 | 82 | #1,424 | 49.1 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,461 | 48.4 |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,455 | 49.8 |
| 1980 | 108 | #1,216 | 65.0 |
| 1979 | 75 | #1,543 | 46.7 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,653 | 41.8 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,774 | 37.2 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,135 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,682 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,497 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,457 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,821 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,790 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,041 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,102 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,316 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,085 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,497 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,313 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleisha, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,013 Americans ever recorded as Aleisha. The median Aleisha alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,600 people named Aleisha (2,599 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,854 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 516 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 714 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 241 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aleisha born?
The states with the most babies named Aleisha are Texas, Florida and Michigan, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 77 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 70 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 67 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 66 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 62 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aleisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,667 babies since 1880, Aleisha is the fourth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 323 babies (4.3%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aleisha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aleisha and names like it
- Compare Aleisha and AlishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAleisha peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Aleisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aleisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.