Ieesha
Ieesha was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 174 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ieesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ieesha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ieesha is “a female given name from Arabic.”
American 20th-century phonetic spelling of Aisha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ieesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,318, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1991, the peak
Ieesha peaked in 1991, when 23 girls were given it, #4,380 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #14,318 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,902 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,889 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,181 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,000 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,380 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,242 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,081 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,619 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,956 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 9 | #7,337 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,267 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,474 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,098 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,061 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,055 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,906 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,314 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,351 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,891 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ieesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ieesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ieesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ieesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 169 Americans named Ieesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 35 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 178 people named Ieesha (178 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,298 babies since 1880, Ieesha is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 176 babies recorded by SSA was a Ieesha (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 Ieesha
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 Ieesha and names like it
- Compare Ieesha and IeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sIeesha peaked in 1991.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ieesha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Ieesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ieesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with IMost given first.