How Many People Are Named Alesha?

7,323

people named Alesha are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 46,672 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,553 babies named Alesha in Social Security records from 1959 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,964

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,648

See the top 100

Peak Year

1990

306 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: Ι™-LEE-shΙ™
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of ALICIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Alesha in English. Counting Alesha and these spellings together, about 301,976 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Alesha (99.9%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Alesha alive today is about 36 years old, and 72% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 29 and 43 in 2025.

Under 30 1,930
26.4%
30 to 59 5,300
72.4%
60 and over 93
1.3%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Alesha first appears in the records in 1959 and was given most often in 1990, to 306 babies. In 2025, 13 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1959 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Alesha has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #629, in 1984. In 2025 it ranked #7,907.

Girls
Rank in 2025#7,907
Best rank#629 (1984)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#706 in the 1980s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Alesha alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Alesha were born in California than in any other state: about 425 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Alesha was given 2.3 times as often in Mississippi, 2.1 times in Oklahoma and 2.1 times in Tennessee.

California 425
Texas 393
New York 367
Michigan 296
Ohio 290
Pennsylvania 286
Florida 277
Illinois 226
Tennessee 188
Missouri 176
Georgia 174
North Carolina 165
Oklahoma 120
Indiana 116
Washington 111
Wisconsin 102
Louisiana 101
Virginia 101
Mississippi 101
Alabama 100
Minnesota 100
Kentucky 91
Utah 90
Arkansas 78
Iowa 70
New Jersey 54
Maryland 47
Arizona 26
Oregon 22
Colorado 12
Kansas 10
South Carolina 10
West Virginia 6
North Dakota 5
Connecticut 5
District of Columbia 5
Massachusetts 5

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