Neesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Neesha has been given to 276 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1990, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Neesha, 2002
1 in 623,000
Neesha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Neesha?
Neesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 623,000
- 6 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 431,748 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Neesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 431,748 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Neeshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Neesha was born before 1985 — so the typical Neesha is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 42.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 276
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (116).
Is Neesha 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (18)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.1% average annual change
Spellings of Neesha
Neesha is not the most common spelling — Keisha is, with 17.1% against Neesha's 0.21%.
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 Neesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Neesha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Neesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Neesha around the world
Where Neesha 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 & Wales1996–2016#5,785in 2016
- Canada1991–2009#3,263in 2009
- South Australia1980–1995#712in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Neesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Neesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Neesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.