Aleesha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aleesha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aleesha: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #227 in 2005, and it stood at #3,015 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#227highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#916
1997	#897
1998	#925
1999	#900
2000	#930
2001	#1107
2002	#702
2003	#637
2004	#551
2005	#227
2006	#362
2007	#454
2008	#568
2009	#701
2010	#821
2011	#817
2012	#801
2013	#1291
2014	#1628
2015	#1497
2016	#1834
2017	#2502
2018	#2090
2019	#2040
2020	#2843
2021	#2499
2022	#5669
2023	#4709
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2014: #752 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1628 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #916 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #227 among girls in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Aleesha appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,093 births with the name.

Aleesha across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aleesha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#916 (1996)	#227 (2005)	#3015 (2024)	29 of 29	1,093 (1996–2024)	207 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#347 (2005)	#260 (2006)	#752 (2014)	10 of 10	80 (2005–2014)	16 (2006)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#254 (2005)	#254 (2005)	#440 (2013)	3 of 9	13 (2005–2013)	6 (2005)

Aleesha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aleesha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	94	4 of 10	24
2000sbusiest	712	10 of 10	71
2010s	254	10 of 10	25
2020s	33	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 71 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 150, from 57 to 207.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aleesha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #227 in England and Wales in 2005.

Aleesha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1497	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#801	48	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#817	45	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#701	52	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#568	67	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#454	89	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#362	117	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#227	207	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#551	57	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#637	45	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#702	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#930	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#925	23	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#916	23	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#254	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#582	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	10	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	10	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#260	16	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#347	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #227, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 207 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 9 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Aleena · #162, 30y
Aleenah · #2925, 18y
Aleeya · #2008, 20y
Aleeyah · #2314, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Chelsie · #227, 27y
Darach · #227, 32y
Meaghan · #227, 25y
Seanna · #227, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chelsie · #227, 27y
Joni · #227, 30y
Korben · #227, 24y
Seanna · #227, 26y

Aleesha was ranked #227 in England and Wales · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aleesha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aleesha without appearing here.

Aleesha moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #4843.
Denise Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Aleesha

Janice Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2499 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #5669 and #1948.
Linnea Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2499 and #2711 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #5669 and #2325.
Francis Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2499 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #5669 and #2488.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Aleesha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Aleesha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleesha went from #916 to #3015 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #227 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aleesha

Aleesha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aleesha across 3 official records

Aleesha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aleesha appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Aleesha at a glance

Aleesha across 3 official records

Aleesha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aleesha appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aleesha

Aleesha and the names beside it

Aleesha moved ahead of

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