Felesha
Felesha was last recorded in 1993, when 8 babies were given it; 177 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Felesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,865, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1971, the peak
Felesha peaked in 1971, when 13 girls were given it, #4,375 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #9,865 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,980 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,096 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,562 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,617 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,645 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,508 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,195 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,789 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,002 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 | #8,391 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,876 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,336 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,560 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,295 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,545 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,112 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,006 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,256 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,375 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,384 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,478 | 3.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,079 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,923 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Felesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Felesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Felesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 38 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 211 people named Felesha (211 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,539 babies since 1880, Felesha is the third most given (2.7% of them).
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 Felesha
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 Felesha and names like it
- Compare Felesha and FelishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFelesha peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Felesha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Felesha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with FMost given first.