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Alesha

#7,907 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alicia

Alesha has been given to 7,553 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #7,907 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 306 recorded.

Babies named Alesha, 2025

1 in 255,000

Alesha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alesha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alicia

Germanic languages

What Alesha means

Alesha is a variant of Alicia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Alesha is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,547 girls were recorded with the name Alesha between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 306 in 1990; its best national rank was #629 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,329 in 2020 to #7,907 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,919 in 2015 to #7,907 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Alesha between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #6,960 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 Alesha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,907
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alesha 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alesha was born before 1989 — so the typical Alesha is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,547
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Choose a decade

1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (2,516).

Is Alesha 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
−645
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,578
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,988
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.34×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 1990 (306)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#629
1984

Spellings of Alesha

Alesha is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 30.2% against Alesha's 0.73%.

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 Alesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Alesha was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 30,841 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 14,286
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 16,667
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 20,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 20,000
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 20,000

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. Alesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alesha around the world

Where Alesha 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2017
    #215
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2004–2020
    #544
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alesha

People whose public names include Alesha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alesha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,907
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,578
Best rank ever
#629
1984
Peak year
1990
306 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,547
Count in 2025
13

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,960
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alesha

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

AleishaAleyshaAleeshaAlesiaAleashaAleciaAleenaAlexysAleneAlexusAletaAlessaAleynaAleyahAlessiaAletheaAleighaAleidaAlexiAlethaAyeshaAleydaAlyshaAlena

Names with a curve like Alesha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alesha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChantelleEboniKristynRikkiJaimieShantelKiaRachealStefaniKacyShanellNikita

Sibling names for Alesha

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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