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Iesha vs Ieshia

American parents have registered 7,467 Ieshas since 1880, against 1,650 Ieshias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Iesha against Ieshia, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Iesha Ieshia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Iesha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2023. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Iesha had 9 and Ieshia had 5.

Side by side

  Iesha Ieshia
Total US births 7,4671,650
Most in one year 1,905293
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 7,3001,600
Median age today 3434
Peak year 19911991
Best rank 157th girls717th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19681970
Girls / boys 7,452 / 151,650 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Iesha and Ieshia.