Ieesha

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Ieesha has been given to 174 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1991, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Ieesha, 1996

1 in 729,000

Ieesha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ieesha: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Ieesha means

Ieesha is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ieesha is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 174 girls were recorded with the name Ieesha between 1973 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1991; its best national rank was #4,380 in 1991.

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 Ieesha?

Ieesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996: 1 in 729,000; 5 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 505,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ieesha 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 1996 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 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ieesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ieeshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ieesha was born before 1988 — so the typical Ieesha is around 37 today.

Median birth year: 1988; About 37 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 45.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 174; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Ieesha 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 1991 (23)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,380; 1991

Spellings of Ieesha

Ieesha is not the most common spelling — Keisha is, with 18.8% against Ieesha's 0.15%.

Keisha18.8%22,293
Alesha6.4%7,547
Iesha6.3%7,452
Ayesha5.7%6,696
Kesha4.4%5,248
Isha4.4%5,151
Tyesha3.9%4,564
Leesa3.5%4,124

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.

Ieesha around the world

Where Ieesha 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
2001–2006
#5,061
in 2006
South Australia
1996–2011
#840
in 2011

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.

Ieesha 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: #4,380; 1991
Peak year: 1991; 23 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 1996
All-time count: 174
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ieesha

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

Avisha Saesha Raisha Raksha Daksha Adasha Brisha Twisha Tvisha Moksha Leysha Meesha Srisha Basha Elaysha Yasha Parisha Areesha Veeksha Ritisha Divisha Hadasha Ausha Preesha

Sibling names for Ieesha

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

For a sister

Shaniqua Devan Chanelle Amberly Elvia Kacy Maegan Kortney

For a brother

Shay Jamil Laron Paris Dejuan Coty Rico Malcom

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