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Iesha

Girls' name

Variant of Aisha

Iesha has been given to 7,467 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1,896 recorded.

Babies named Iesha, 2023

1 in 414,000

Iesha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iesha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Aisha

Arabic

What Iesha means

Iesha is a variant of Aisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Iesha is used in African American (Modern).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Iesha → Aisha. The family’s meaning is “living, alive”, recorded in the naming reference for Aisha.

Origin, language, and formation

Iesha is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,452 girls were recorded with the name Iesha between 1968 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 1,896 in 1991; its best national rank was #157 in 1991.

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Iesha between 1989 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1991; its best national rank was #5,677 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 Iesha?

Iesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iesha 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ieshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iesha was born before 1991 — so the typical Iesha is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
59.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,452
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 59.6% of all recorded uses (4,443).

Is Iesha 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (1,896)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#157
1991

Iesha’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1991, 1,896 girls were named Iesha — about #157 that year — roughly 6.1× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Iesha

Iesha is not the most common spelling — Isla is, with 12.1% against Iesha's 1.5%.

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 Iesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Iesha was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 25,628 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 11,111
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 11,111
  3. 3Georgia1 in 12,500
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 12,500
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 14,286
  6. 6Florida1 in 14,286
  7. 7Illinois1 in 14,286
  8. 8Maryland1 in 16,667

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

Iesha around the world

Where Iesha 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
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #802
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #2,331
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1992–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Iesha 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
#157
1991
Peak year
1991
1,896 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
7,452
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,677
1991
Peak year
1991
9 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iesha

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

ToshaTishaKeshaMishaDashaAleshaAyshaAyeshaNishaAshaAlyshaIshaLishaDaishaAnishaAishaKishaPorshaElishaTashaSashaPrishaTaishaKeesha

Names with a curve like Iesha

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

ShaniquaShaniceKirstieJalisaDevanChelsieKanishaBrittniChelsiAnjelicaBrittanieShaniece

Sibling names for Iesha

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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