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Iesha

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Iesha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 157th, in 1991.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
19911,896 births
Best rank
#157in 1991
Since 1968
7,452people given the name
Babies named Iesha, by year of birthgirls
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

7,452 girls have been named Iesha in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 1,896 births — 0.10% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 1,896 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 60%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Iesha
1960s7
1970s796
1980s1,586
1990s4,443
2000s499
2010s101
2020s20

In 1991, its biggest year

Iesha was the 157th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.

Names that rose and fell with Iesha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.