How Many People Are Named Iesha?

7,276

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

About 1 in 46,974 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,467 babies named Iesha in Social Security records from 1968 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,972

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,655

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Peak Year

1991

1,905 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American (Modern)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of AISHA. It was popularized by the song 'Iesha' (1991) by Another Bad Creation.

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

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Iesha (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Iesha alive today is about 35 years old, and 83% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 31 and 39 in 2025.

Under 30 1,262
17.3%
30 to 59 6,014
82.7%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Iesha first appears in the records in 1968 and was given most often in 1991, to 1,905 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.

Babies given the name each year, 1968 to 2023

🏆 Rank History

Iesha has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #157, in 1991.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#157 (1991)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#549 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Iesha were born in New York than in any other state: about 551 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Iesha was given 3.8 times as often in Mississippi, 2.7 times in Louisiana and 2.6 times in South Carolina.

New York 551
Illinois 516
California 421
Texas 420
Florida 386
Georgia 374
Ohio 272
Pennsylvania 262
North Carolina 260
Louisiana 257
Michigan 255
Mississippi 190
New Jersey 188
South Carolina 173
Virginia 172
Alabama 153
Maryland 141
Tennessee 107
Missouri 82
Wisconsin 76
Indiana 73
Massachusetts 58
Connecticut 50
District of Columbia 47
Kentucky 37
Arkansas 36
Arizona 30
New Mexico 28
Colorado 28
Oklahoma 21
Washington 21
Minnesota 20
Kansas 20
Iowa 6
Hawaii 6
Oregon 5
Delaware 5
West Virginia 5

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