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Aleisha

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#7,489 for girls

Aleisha is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

What does Aleisha mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern nonstandard spelling of Alicia.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Aleisha a girl's or a boy's name?

Aleisha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aleisha in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 76 girls.

Half of all the girls named Aleisha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2009. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 76 in 20092022
Aleisha in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20221#7,487
20212#7,411
20201#7,326
20193#5,804
20185#4,204
20176#3,774
20167#3,389
20159#2,855
201420#1,596
201322#1,505
201248#857
201150#798
201058#696
200976#565
200873#572
200772#563
200663#600
200561#598
200441#744
200360#563
200258#562
200134#783
200033#772
199927#893
199839#695
199740#697
199630#816

How popular is Aleisha in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,489among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 13% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Aleisha, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 1989, with 122 girls. It first appears in the records in 1961.

Half of all the girls named Aleisha in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.

1961Busiest: 122 in 19892025
Aleisha in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202412#8,438
202327#4,870
202217#6,702
202112#8,459
202021#5,663
201913#8,134
201813#8,142
201735#4,146
201622#5,794
201523#5,651
201416#7,300
201317#7,027
201218#6,868
201118#6,852
201029#4,859
200929#4,930
200834#4,447
200751#3,289
200631#4,575
200558#2,823
200435#3,985
200353#2,882
200257#2,670
200159#2,567
200070#2,232
199954#2,607
199856#2,458
199770#2,020
199678#1,862
199563#2,120
199488#1,683
199399#1,563
199291#1,657
1991102#1,511
1990121#1,326
1989122#1,285
1988118#1,248
1987115#1,234
198687#1,459
198591#1,400
198473#1,550
198382#1,423
198282#1,461
198183#1,455
1980108#1,216
197975#1,543
197864#1,653
197757#1,774
197640#2,135
197528#2,680
197430#2,497
197330#2,455
197224#2,820
197116#3,787
197014#4,037
196919#3,101
196816#3,314
196717#3,084
19669#4,492
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19617#5,308

Names like Aleisha

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Alisha Amira Aaliyah Summer Aisha Khadija Safa Halima Aysha Aliya Amina Safiya

Names related to Aleisha

Alessia Alisa Elisha Alissa Alesha Alesia Alisia Alessa Alysha

More Germanic names

Amelia Liam Henry Charlotte William Archie Charlie Emma Freddie Ella Harry Millie Albie Matilda Louie Miles

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Aleisha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aleisha, updated 20 October 2026.