Alesha
Alesha was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,907 among girls’ names; 7,553 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,310 Americans named Alesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alesha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alesha is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
One of the modern variations of Alicia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alesha?
#7,907 among girls’ names, 2025
Alesha fell from #3,919 in 2015 to #7,907 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 8.1 per million.
306 babies in 1990, the peak
Alesha peaked in 1990, when 306 girls were given it, #692 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,907 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,262 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,650 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,462 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,957 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,329 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,913 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,771 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,069 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,429 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,919 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,168 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,018 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,645 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,915 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,125 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,893 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,441 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,419 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,703 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,377 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 92 | #1,997 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,201 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,819 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,610 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,509 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,440 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 153 | #1,203 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,095 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 201 | #956 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 207 | #908 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 258 | #790 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 256 | #793 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 261 | #780 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 298 | #709 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 306 | #692 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 298 | #680 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 285 | #680 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 265 | #692 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 231 | #750 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 244 | #709 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 282 | #629 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 244 | #697 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 220 | #753 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 208 | #784 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 239 | #710 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 230 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 151 | #936 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 151 | #926 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 127 | #997 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 142 | #915 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 97 | #1,165 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 107 | #1,074 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 80 | #1,280 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,427 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,408 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,591 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,056 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,273 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,860 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,156 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,959 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,264 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,188 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,256 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alesha has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alesha, and how old are they?
7,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,553 Americans ever recorded as Alesha. The median Alesha alive today is 37 years old; half are between 30 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 6,367 people named Alesha (6,352 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,282 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 66 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 310 |
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 Alesha born?
The states with the most babies named Alesha are California, Texas and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 439 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 407 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 377 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 305 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 299 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 294 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 284 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 233 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 193 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 181 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Alesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alesha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1959 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Alesha 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, Alesha is the third most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 323 babies (4.0%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Alesha
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 Alesha and names like it
- Compare Alesha and AlishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlesha peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alesha since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Alesha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Alesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Alesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.