Iesha
Iesha was last recorded in 2023, when 8 babies were given it; 7,467 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,270 Americans named Iesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 32 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Iesha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Iesha 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 Iesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,580, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,905 babies in 1991, the peak
Iesha peaked in 1991, when 1,905 babies were given it (1,896 girls, #157 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #11,580 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,233 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,148 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,460 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,490 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,823 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,724 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,329 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,293 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,822 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | #5,809 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,041 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,905 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,216 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,605 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,100 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,533 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,935 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,097 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,502 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,874 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,885 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,681 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,482 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 167 | #1,123 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 278 | #761 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 318 | #670 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 321 | #667 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 384 | #604 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 581 | #432 | 0.32 |
| 1991 | 1,896 | #157 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 285 | #731 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 161 | #1,055 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 133 | #1,149 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 187 | #897 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 163 | #967 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 155 | #986 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 164 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 152 | #962 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 152 | #974 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 163 | #920 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 156 | #952 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 169 | #889 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 130 | #1,046 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 157 | #903 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 84 | #1,300 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,678 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,393 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,842 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,476 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,506 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,244 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,850 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Iesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iesha has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Iesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iesha, and how old are they?
7,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,467 Americans ever recorded as Iesha. The median Iesha alive today is 35 years old; half are between 32 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 5,650 people named Iesha (5,636 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,300 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 908 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 918 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 70 |
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 Iesha born?
The states with the most babies named Iesha are New York, Illinois and California, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 570 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 530 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 434 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 431 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 394 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 383 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 279 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 270 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 266 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 264 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Iesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Iesha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1968 it was given 2.5 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 Iesha 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 16,298 babies since 1880, Iesha is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 none of their 176 babies recorded by SSA was a Iesha (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 Iesha
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 Iesha and names like it
- Compare Iesha and IshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sIesha peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iesha since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Iesha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Iesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Iesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with IMost given first.