Elisha

What Elisha means

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

Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Elisha?

US: Steady: #776 in 2015, #788 now. England & Wales: Steady: #1236 in 2015, #1226 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1883, when 42 boys got the name (#253 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,305 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,823 baby boys in England and Wales 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 SC (0.52 per 1,000 boys), AL (0.51 per 1,000 boys), KS (0.5 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Elisha is #788 in the US and #1226 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 84.5% of US babies named Elisha were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Elisha

Boys

• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Isaiah#57Editor’s note Down from #49 in 2015 to #57 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 320 US boys in the 2025 records
• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Anaiah#853Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1983, with 6 babies
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US

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