Aleshia
Aleshia was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 2,826 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,710 Americans named Aleshia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 34 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleshia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aleshia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aleshia is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.” Its etymology gives the sense “of noble kind” (meaning).
One of the modern variations of Alicia, meaning “of noble kind”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aleshia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,949, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
149 babies in 1991, the peak
Aleshia peaked in 1991, when 149 girls were given it, #1,170 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #12,949 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,580 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,285 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,046 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,413 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,477 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,002 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,543 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,819 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,885 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 23 | #5,440 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,561 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,423 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,090 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,833 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,587 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,635 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,972 | 24.3 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,693 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,012 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,151 | 35.3 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,967 | 39.8 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,895 | 40.9 |
| 1992 | 103 | #1,520 | 55.9 |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,170 | 79.5 |
| 1990 | 130 | #1,253 | 68.5 |
| 1989 | 119 | #1,312 | 64.5 |
| 1988 | 126 | #1,195 | 70.8 |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,280 | 62.7 |
| 1986 | 106 | #1,273 | 61.8 |
| 1985 | 102 | #1,310 | 59.3 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,414 | 48.7 |
| 1983 | 110 | #1,183 | 65.8 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,384 | 52.0 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,596 | 43.8 |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,433 | 51.2 |
| 1979 | 84 | #1,442 | 52.3 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,634 | 42.4 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,637 | 41.7 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,695 | 38.9 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,838 | 34.3 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,913 | 30.7 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,019 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,675 | 34.8 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,137 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,647 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,024 | 22.5 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,164 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,558 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,937 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,204 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,305 | 14.8 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,306 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,813 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,460 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,649 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,255 | 6.9 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,382 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleshia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleshia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleshia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleshia, and how old are they?
2,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,826 Americans ever recorded as Aleshia. The median Aleshia alive today is 39 years old; half are between 34 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 2,299 people named Aleshia (2,299 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 110 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 699 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23 |
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 Aleshia born?
The states with the most babies named Aleshia are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 134 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 104 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 84 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 70 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 57 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 56 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 53 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 48 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Aleshia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aleshia is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1957 it was given 1.4 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 Aleshia 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 86,078 babies since 1880, Aleshia is the fifth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 254 babies recorded by SSA was a Aleshia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Aleshia
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 Aleshia and names like it
- Compare Aleshia and AlishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAleshia peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleshia since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Aleshia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Aleshia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aleshia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.