Pesha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pesha

The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Pesha between 1987 and 2021, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 6 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pesha performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Pesha shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pesha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pesha 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 26 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.