Niesha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Niesha

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,183 babies named Niesha between 1969 and 2018, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Niesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 165 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Niesha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 884 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Niesha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 180 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Niesha in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Niesha 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 2,183 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.