Elesha
Feminine
Elesha is an American name of the sixties and seventies that sounds like Alicia and looks like Elisha, the prophet's name. The most famous American Elisha lost the invention of the telephone by a matter of hours.
How old is the name Elesha?
Elesha first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Elesha alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 600 people named Elesha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elesha most popular?
Elesha peaked in 1976, reaching #3002 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Elesha
On 14 February 1876 Elisha Gray, an inventor in Chicago, filed a caveat at the Patent Office describing a telephone; Alexander Graham Bell's lawyer had filed Bell's application the same day, a few hours earlier by most accounts, and the telephone became Bell's. Elesha shares Elisha's letters and Alicia's sound. It is a name that sounds like something just about to happen.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Elesha may be Alicia as it was heard, or the biblical Elisha given to a girl; nothing records which.
Pronouncing Elesha
uh-LEE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Elesha
Limited
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
- 1959
- Most girls named
- 198529 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3002reached in 1976
- Change vs 2006
- −28.6%5 in 2007, from 7
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.
Eleshas among us
people named Elesha 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
Elesha 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
- Easy to say once heard.
- Close to familiar names.
- Rare, so an Elesha is unlikely to share her name.
- People will write Alicia or Elisha.
- Elisha is a man's name in the Bible, which some will notice.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eleshas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Elesha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Elesha in 2025?
- Elesha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Elesha with classmates?
- Elesha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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