Alesa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Alesa

The Social Security Administration has registered 926 babies named Alesa between 1951 and 2018, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alesa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1963, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alesa performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 243 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Alesa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Alesa in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alesa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 926 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.