Meaning not yet researched.
Alisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 183 in 2025. Its best rank was #118 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #118 in 1987; #1,229 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,229 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #118.
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Alisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 183 girls in 2025. Peak: #118 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 2,437 (1989).
In 2025, 183 US girls were named Alisha, making it the 1,229th most common girls’ name of the year, down 89 places from #1,140 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 212 girls named Alisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #118, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,437, in 1989. For comparison, it was #921 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alisha in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 6 babies. In all, 57,127 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 21,827 babies named Alisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,309 US girls were named Alisha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 314. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,783 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alisha ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #462 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alysha (9,601 babies since 1880), Alesha (7,553 babies since 1880), Aleisha (3,013 babies since 1880) and Aleesha (1,942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aleasha, Allisha and Aliesha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aleasha (968), Allisha (865), Aliesha (852), Alaisha (645), Aleysha (610), Allysha (515), Alasha (289), Allesha (119), Alishah (78), Alyssha (75), Aalisha (35), Alissha (27), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alisha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 40 | #462 | #666 |
| Indiana | 8 | #724 | — |
| New York | 20 | #790 | #423 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #850 | #475 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,044 | #548 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,060 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,117 | #601 |
| California | 17 | #1,363 | #806 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,461 | #1,147 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 183 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2023 | 192 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 2022 | 223 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 2019 | 229 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2018 | 276 | #956 | — | — |
| 2017 | 314 | #870 | — | — |
| 2016 | 269 | #987 | — | — |
| 2015 | 298 | #921 | — | — |
| 2014 | 305 | #891 | — | — |
| 2013 | 297 | #866 | — | — |
| 2012 | 307 | #866 | — | — |
| 2011 | 360 | #764 | — | — |
| 2010 | 352 | #782 | — | — |
| 2009 | 375 | #760 | — | — |
| 2008 | 476 | #648 | — | — |
| 2007 | 554 | #552 | — | — |
| 2006 | 500 | #585 | — | — |
| 2005 | 625 | #490 | — | — |
| 2004 | 685 | #446 | 5 | #11,419 |
| 2003 | 685 | #439 | — | — |
| 2002 | 711 | #409 | — | — |
| 2001 | 684 | #417 | — | — |
| 2000 | 715 | #401 | — | — |
| 1999 | 765 | #374 | — | — |
| 1998 | 857 | #341 | — | — |
| 1997 | 990 | #289 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,163 | #240 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,279 | #221 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,497 | #200 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,721 | #173 | 7 | #6,843 |
| 1992 | 1,855 | #163 | 5 | #8,481 |
| 1991 | 2,041 | #149 | — | — |
| 1990 | 2,342 | #135 | — | — |
| 1989 | 2,437 | #123 | 20 | #2,992 |
| 1988 | 2,268 | #126 | 8 | #5,212 |
| 1987 | 2,392 | #118 | 8 | #4,980 |
| 1986 | 2,236 | #125 | 7 | #5,351 |
| 1985 | 2,211 | #131 | 5 | #6,557 |
| 1984 | 2,293 | #123 | 13 | #3,275 |
| 1983 | 2,048 | #141 | — | — |
| 1982 | 2,015 | #145 | — | — |
| 1981 | 1,997 | #142 | 5 | #6,299 |
| 1980 | 1,854 | #151 | 10 | #3,845 |
| 1979 | 1,721 | #162 | 7 | #4,862 |
| 1978 | 1,377 | #188 | 7 | #4,569 |
| 1977 | 1,316 | #201 | 7 | #4,604 |
| 1976 | 933 | #254 | — | — |
| 1975 | 791 | #296 | 11 | #3,252 |
| 1974 | 682 | #325 | — | — |
| 1973 | 590 | #360 | 6 | #4,522 |
| 1972 | 560 | #382 | — | — |
| 1971 | 528 | #406 | — | — |
| 1970 | 420 | #481 | — | — |
| 1969 | 372 | #506 | — | — |
| 1968 | 239 | #620 | — | — |
| 1967 | 169 | #755 | — | — |
| 1966 | 137 | #856 | — | — |
| 1965 | 157 | #787 | — | — |
| 1964 | 120 | #964 | — | — |
| 1963 | 96 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1960 | 60 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,926 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,380 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,664 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,808 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,660 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).