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Aleesha

Girls' name

Variant of Alicia

Aleesha has been given to 1,942 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Aleesha, 2024

1 in 334,000

Aleesha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleesha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aleesha means

Aleesha is a variant of Alicia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aleesha is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ə.ˈliː.ʃə/ for Aleesha.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aleesha → Alicia → Adelais. The family’s meaning is “noble + character”, recorded in Old French with the source elements aþalaz and haiduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,942 girls were recorded with the name Aleesha between 1970 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,596 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aleesha?

Aleesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 162,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleesha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleeshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleesha was born before 1994 — so the typical Aleesha is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,942
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (787).

Is Aleesha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (90)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,596
1989

Spellings of Aleesha

Aleesha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 32.8% against Aleesha's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aleesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleesha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 230,693 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aleesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleesha around the world

Where Aleesha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2009
    #392
    in 2009
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2013
    #440
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2005–2014
    #752
    in 2014
  • France
    2017–2017
    #5,670
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aleesha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,596
1989
Peak year
1992
90 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,942
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aleesha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aleesha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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