Daesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daesha has been given to 674 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1996, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Daesha, 2014
1 in 530,000
Daesha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Daesha?
Daesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 530,000
- 7 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 255,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 367,053 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daeshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daesha was born before 1999 — so the typical Daesha is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 44.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 674
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (299).
Is Daesha 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 1996 (56)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.2% average annual change
Spellings of Daesha
Daesha is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 28.8% against Daesha's 0.19%.
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 Daesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Daesha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 754,341 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Ohio1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Daesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Daesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Daesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.