Alisha

What Alisha means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alisha yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 2,437 babies; 183 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alisha?

US: Falling: down from #921 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #199 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1987, when 2,392 girls got the name (#118 that year). First in the US records in 1948.

How common

• About 1 in 8,783 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,241 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in FL (0.46 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.29 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.26 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alisha is #1229 in the US and #376 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alisha were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elisha59 US · 25 E&W
• Alaysha69 US · 3 E&W
• Alysha44 US · 7 E&W
• Aleysha35 US
• Alaisha22 US
• Alesha13 US · 5 E&W
• Aleisha14 US
• Aleesha0 US · 9 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alisha

Girls

• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Alyssa#453“a plant of the genus Alyssum”^*
• Robin#704Diminutive of Robert, meaning “shining glory”^*

For a brother

• Ronald#637“advice + power”^*
• Frank#513Form of Francis, meaning “Frankish (man); a Frank”^*
• Robert#92“shining glory”^*
• Jeffrey#552Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #552 vs #1,705 in 2025
• Dustin#728possibly “Thor s stone”^*
• Richard#234“king, ruler + hard, brave”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alisha’s. Rank is US 2025.