Aleisha
Feminine · “Germanic "noble sort”
Alice and Adelaide are the same name, and the proof is in what French did to the middle of it. Adalheidis lost its interior syllables one at a time — Adalheidis, Adelais, Aliz, Alice — a process called syncope, and it is the main engine by which long Germanic names became short French ones.
How old is the name Aleisha?
Aleisha first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Aleisha alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 2,900 people named Aleisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aleisha most popular?
Aleisha peaked in 1980, reaching #1216 nationally. Today it ranks #7491, 6,275 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Aleisha
The story of Aleisha
Syncope, the loss of a syllable inside a word, is what makes French names short. Latin calidus became chaud; Germanic Chlodovech became Louis; Adalheidis became Aliz. English names went through their own version — Robert to Rob, but also Sanct Andreas to Saunders — yet French did it hardest and earliest, which is why Norman French supplied English with a stock of short names in the twelfth century that had already been through the process. Alice arrived in England that way, was one of the most common women's names of the Middle Ages, faded, and returned in the nineteenth century. Aleisha, an American respelling of Alicia, peaks in 1980.
Meaning
Germanic "noble sort, of noble kind"
From Old High German adal, noble, plus heid, sort, kind or quality — a person of noble kind. Old French reduced Adalheidis to Adelais and then Aliz, which English took as Alice. Alicia is the Latinized form, and Alisha, Aleisha and Alesha are modern respellings of Alicia. Adelaide is the same name arriving by a different, less-reduced route through German.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Adelais
- Alice
- Alicia
- Aleisha
Related forms: Alisha · Alicia · Adelheid · Alice
Pronouncing Aleisha
uh-LEE-shuh
Three syllables, stress on the second. Some families say uh-LAY-shuh, following the ei spelling as a long a; both are in use, and the spelling does not decide.
Nicknames for Aleisha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 1989122 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1216reached in 1980
- Change vs 2024
- +16.7%14 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aleisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alisha in English — spelling variant
- Alicia in English — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alice in French — related form
Aleishas among us
people named Aleisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was named Aleisha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aleisha
- #7491
- Aleisha on the 2025 chart
- #911
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aleisha went to 14 girls in 2025, but Aleysha is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 49, which makes it the 911th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,580 places above the chart.
- Aleysha35
- Aleisha14
About 1 girl in 32,801 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 114,805 for Aleisha itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lawanna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aleisha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lawanna climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lawanna's path sketches the road Aleisha is walking now.
Aleisha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Aleisha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aleisha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It descends from one of the best-documented names in medieval Europe.
- Ali is an immediate short form needing no explanation.
- It is soft and easy to say in English.
- Alisha, Alesha and Aleesha all compete for the same sound.
- The ei spelling supports two different pronunciations.
- It will be corrected to Alicia or Alisha by most people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aleishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Aleisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aleisha?
- Aleisha is one of 2 recorded spellings. Aleysha is the more common one — 35 births in 2025 against 14 for Aleisha.
- How popular is the name Aleisha in 2025?
- Aleisha ranks #7491 among US girl names in 2025, with 14 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aleisha?
- About 1 in every 114,805 US girls born in 2025 was named Aleisha — 14 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aleisha with classmates?
- Aleisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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