Carleisha — girls' name
26 babies named Carleisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
69% of everyone ever named Carleisha was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Carleisha in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Carleisha
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Carleisha between 1990 and 2000, spanning 11 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carleisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Carleisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Carleisha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Carleisha 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 26 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.
Carleisha at a glance
Last recorded 2000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Carleisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–1990
- Peak year (2000)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 11 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2000.
26 total births across 11 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 8 births in a single year.
Carleisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 18 births that decade — 69% of Carleisha's all-time total
Carleisha decade highlights
- Peak decade 18 births
- Runner-up 8 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Carleisha's strongest decade
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 69% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1990–2000 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.