Niesha
Niesha was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 2,183 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Niesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,146, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
165 babies in 1991, the peak
Niesha peaked in 1991, when 165 girls were given it, #1,093 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,146 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,591 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,413 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,097 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,963 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,352 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,646 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,920 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,470 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,699 | 12.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 23 | #5,357 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,721 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,319 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,709 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,549 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,275 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,133 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,077 | 38.2 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,335 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,244 | 33.0 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,022 | 38.1 |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,578 | 53.1 |
| 1991 | 165 | #1,093 | 88.0 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,548 | 52.1 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,592 | 47.7 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,749 | 41.0 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,616 | 44.3 |
| 1986 | 107 | #1,267 | 62.4 |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,303 | 59.9 |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,441 | 48.1 |
| 1983 | 92 | #1,313 | 55.1 |
| 1982 | 105 | #1,248 | 62.0 |
| 1981 | 74 | #1,588 | 44.4 |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,454 | 50.6 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,538 | 47.3 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,509 | 49.0 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,553 | 45.7 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,282 | 25.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,935 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,167 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,203 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,708 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,027 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,293 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niesha, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,183 Americans ever recorded as Niesha. The median Niesha alive today is 38 years old; half are between 33 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,778 people named Niesha (1,775 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 404 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 356 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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 Niesha born?
The states with the most babies named Niesha are New York, California and Illinois, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 180 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 157 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 86 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 64 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 59 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 54 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Niesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Niesha is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.2 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 Niesha 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 8,962 babies since 1880, Niesha is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 none of their 28 babies recorded by SSA was a Niesha (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 Niesha
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 Niesha and names like it
- Compare Niesha and NishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNiesha peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Niesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Niesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.