Niesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Niesha has been given to 2,183 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 1991, with 165 recorded.
Babies named Niesha, 2018
1 in 586,000
Niesha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Niesha?
Niesha 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 586,000
- 6 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 283,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 406,284 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Niesha sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nieshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Niesha was born before 1988 — so the typical Niesha is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 40.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,183
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (884).
Is Niesha 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 1991 (165)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Niesha
Niesha is not the most common spelling — Aisha is, with 17.5% against Niesha's 1.4%.
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 Niesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Niesha was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 120,370 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5Illinois1 in 100,000
- 6Maryland1 in 100,000
- 7Michigan1 in 100,000
- 8Mississippi1 in 100,000
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. Niesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Niesha around the world
Where Niesha 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 & Wales2000–2010#5,707in 2010
- South Australia1978–2008#796in 2008
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.
Niesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Niesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Niesha
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Niesha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Niesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.