Aleshia
Feminine · “noble”
Aleshia writes out both the sh and the i where Latin used a single letter. The c in Alicia is doing two jobs at once — standing for a sound Latin had and a sound English made of it — and this spelling separates them, which takes more letters and leaves less doubt.
How old is the name Aleshia?
Aleshia first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Aleshia alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 2,700 people named Aleshia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aleshia most popular?
Aleshia peaked in 1991, reaching #1173 nationally. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adelaide to Aleshia
The story of Aleshia
Alicia is Alice with a Latin ending stuck on, a thing medieval clerks did to almost every name when writing it in a document. The c in that ending was said as a ts or a k in Latin and became a sh in English before an i, which is a change English made to a great many Latin words — nation, patience, special — without ever writing it down. Names get respelt precisely where a spelling hides a sound, and this is one of those places. Aleshia, Alesha and Alicia are three positions on the same question: how much of the pronunciation should the letters actually show.
Meaning
noble
The name descends through Alice from a Germanic compound whose surviving half means noble. The Latin-looking ending was added in the Middle Ages to make the name look formal.
How the name formed
- Adelaide
- Alice
- Alicia
- Aleshia
Related forms: Alicia · Alice
Pronouncing Aleshia
uh-LEE-shuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. Every spelling in this family is said the same way.
Nicknames for Aleshia
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 1991149 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1173reached in 1991
- Change vs 2015
- +16.7%7 in 2016, from 6
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.
Aleshia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alicia in Spanish — related form
- Alice in French — related form
Aleshias among us
people named Aleshia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Aleshia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling leaves no doubt about the sh sound, which the c version does.
- The stress in the middle gives it a lift most English names of its length do not have.
- It carries several short forms with quite different characters.
- Alicia, Alisha and Alesha are all commoner and will be written instead.
- It is longer than every other spelling in its family.
- It reads clearly as a name of the second half of the twentieth century.
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- How many Aleshias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Aleshia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Aleshia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Aleshia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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