Niesha as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Niesha

What is the meaning of the name Niesha ?

The baby name Niesha is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced nee-SHA.

Niesha is African American, Sanskrit in Origin.

Niesha is best read as an American respelling of Nisha, the romanized form of Sanskrit niśā (निशा), a feminine noun for night. The word belongs to the Indo-Aryan lexicon and appears in classical Sanskrit dictionaries with the long final vowel ā marking feminine gender. The spelling Nie- does not represent an older Indic form; it preserves the English pronunciation nee-SHA while adding a late-modern orthographic flourish.

In South Asian use, Nisha is a given name across Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and other language communities, often written in local scripts or romanized without diacritics. Niesha is specifically documented in U.S. SSA records from 1969, rising in the 1980s and peaking in 1991. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 first-name tables recorded a predominantly Black or African American bearer base, giving this spelling clear evidence in late-20th-century African American usage. Related spellings include Neesha and Neisha.