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Neisha

Gender
Girl
Say it
NEE-shah
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Neisha is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

Where does Neisha come from?

Modern: probably a variant of Nisha or Niesha

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

Neisha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Neisha in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 9 girls.

Half of all the girls named Neisha in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2007. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 9 in 19962013
Neisha in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20131#7,690
20120–
20113#6,007
20104#4,931
20094#4,795
20084#4,742
20074#4,494
20067#2,940
20056#3,133
20048#2,406
20030–
20028#2,231
20017#2,341
20000–
19996#2,559
19983#4,026
19973#3,991
19969#1,862

How popular is Neisha in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Neisha, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 1980, with 48 girls. It first appears in the records in 1960.

2025 had more girls named Neisha than any year since 2009.

Half of all the girls named Neisha in the US since 1880 were born between 1978 and 1996, the years shaded on the chart below.

1960Busiest: 48 in 19802025
Neisha in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202410#9,551
20237#12,192
20227#12,237
20217#12,201
20208#11,085
201910#9,730
20185#15,677
20176#14,120
20168#11,776
20157#13,001
20147#13,063
20138#11,964
20125#16,863
20110–
20106#14,953
200912#9,375
200810#10,802
20079#11,626
200610#10,606
200512#8,878
200414#7,823
200313#7,993
200220#5,669
200111#8,751
20007#11,794
199911#8,216
199814#6,714
199718#5,413
199621#4,734
199521#4,672
199428#3,785
199325#4,095
199227#3,860
199130#3,534
199034#3,222
198928#3,560
198832#3,090
198740#2,529
198638#2,563
198528#3,169
198428#3,068
198331#2,782
198229#3,016
198133#2,723
198048#2,128
197940#2,343
197822#3,388
197725#3,082
197628#2,727
197528#2,680
197431#2,433
197327#2,629
197215#3,894
197117#3,650
197018#3,435
196918#3,198
196813#3,788
19678#4,981
196614#3,399
19659#4,493
19640–
19630–
19620–
19615#6,566
19605#6,389

Names like Neisha

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

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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, “Neisha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/neisha, updated 20 October 2026.