first name
ALESHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,367 people named Alesha, 55.1% reported their origin as White, 28.8% as Black and 6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Alesha peaked in 1990, when 306 babies got the name.
At least 7,553 babies have been given the name since 1959. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Alesha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,246. The largest share of babies named Alesha, 53.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Alesha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alesha has been most common in Utah (2.3×), Oklahoma (1.8×), and Tennessee (1.8×), and least common in New Jersey (0.4×).
4,894 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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