Nesa
Nesa was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 101 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,667, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1992, the peak
Nesa peaked in 1992, when 17 girls were given it, #5,641 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,667 | 3.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,488 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,920 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,837 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,234 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,641 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,857 | 6.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,809 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,207 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,899 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | #9,953 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,898 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,477 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,321 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nesa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nesa, and how old are they?
An estimated 97 Americans named Nesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 256 people named Nesa (253 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 92 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times 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).
How common is the spelling Nesa?
Nesa is a less common spelling of Nessa: SSA has recorded 101 Nesa and 1,368 Nessa since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,103 babies since 1880, Nesa is the fifth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 77 babies recorded by SSA was a Nesa (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 Nesa
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 Nesa and names like it
- Compare Nesa and NessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNesa peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Nesa.
- Names starting with NMost given first.