girls:
7.5k births since 1959
#1873 (67th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1989
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
7.5k births since 1959
#3108 (60th percentile)
The name Alesha is the #3,108 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,526 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 59.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,873 (67.2% percentile) for all time with 7,520 births since 1959. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1989.
Alesha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for girls and 1989 for boys).
The name Alesha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alesha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 34.2% percentile (ranked #543) with 150 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 156 births per million (ranked 34.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alesha ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 5.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alesha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alesha".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alesha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.1% confident that Alesha is pronounced as uh-LEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEH-shuh, at 42.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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