girls:
7.5k births since 1968
#1883 (67th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1989
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
7.5k births since 1968
#3124 (60th percentile)
The name Iesha is the #3,124 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,467 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 59.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,883 (67.1% percentile) for all time with 7,452 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1989.
Iesha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Iesha is available in 53 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (53 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Iesha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Iesha reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 81.7% percentile (ranked #156) with 932 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 932 births per million (ranked 81.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Iesha ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Iesha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iesha".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Iesha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Iesha is pronounced as ai-EE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-shuh, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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