Alesia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ალესია in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alesia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name4.6K records spelled Alesia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Russia

  Also written Alesi︠a︡, Alésia

• German given name406 records spelled Alesia81 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Peru, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: German, Italian, Spanish

  Also written Alessia, Алессия, Алесія, Алессиа, Алесиа

• Lithuanian given name160 records spelled Alesia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States

  Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

  Also written Alėsia

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Alesia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, weibl. Vom., Nebenform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Latin, Alesia (ancient capital of the Mandubii in Gaul, site of a famous battle won by Caesar)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 79 years between 1947–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Alésia Glidewellb. 1978USAmerican director and actress
• Alesiya Charnyovskayab. 1978BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian taekwondo practitioners
• Alesia Turavab. 1979BYBelarusian distance runner
• Alesia Grafb. 1980BYBelarusian-born German boxer (1980-2024)
• Alesia Batsmanb. 1984UAUkrainian journalist and TV host
• Alesia Zaitsavab. 1985BYbadminton player
• Olesya Babushkinab. 1989BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian gymnast
• Alesya Romanovab. 1990UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian actress
• Alesya Kuznetsovab. 1992RUnot in their usual nameRussian judoka (1992-)
• Alesya Guzkob. 2005RUnot in their usual nameactress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 352 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alesia?

We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Alesia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Alesia have the most bearers?

We estimate about 6.4 thousand people bear Alesia in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled alesia.

Where is Alesia most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alesia is densest in Albania — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Alesia compared with other names?

In Guyana, Alesia is the 895th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.

Is Alesia a male or female name?

Alesia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Alesia mean?

Recorded meaning: Variante d’Alexia/Alessia, issue d’Alexandre, du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes ».