first name
IESHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 5,650 people named Iesha, 80.6% reported their origin as Black, 8.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.3% 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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Iesha peaked in 1991, when 1,905 babies got the name.
At least 7,467 babies have been given the name since 1968. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Iesha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,028. The largest share of babies named Iesha, 73.8%, 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 Iesha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Iesha has been most common in Mississippi (2.6×), Louisiana (2.4×), and Georgia (2.3×), and least common in Kentucky (0.37×).
5,902 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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