Name Awesome

Elesa

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Elesa has been given to 216 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1963, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Elesa, 2018

1 in 703,000

Elesa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elesa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elesa means

Elesa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Elesa is used in Old English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 216 girls were recorded with the name Elesa between 1947 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1963; its best national rank was #3,377 in 1963.

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 Elesa?

Elesa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elesa 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elesas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elesa was born before 1964 — so the typical Elesa is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
208
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Elesa 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
—
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 1963 (15)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,377
1963

Spellings of Elesa

Elesa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 32.3% against Elesa's <0.01%.

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.

Elesa around the world

Where Elesa 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
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1970–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elesa 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
#3,377
1963
Peak year
1963
15 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
216
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elesa

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

EleiaEleahElenyEleesaElenieEleyaEleenElennaEleaEleriElenEleoraEleinaEleenaEleneElevenEleynaEleannaAnesaEleseEleanyElethaElexaElenia

Sibling names for Elesa

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

Explore around Elesa

Top names of 1963, Elesa's peak yearThe 1960s in fullOther names that peaked in 1963Girls' names starting with E