Alisha
Alisha was given to 183 girls in 2025, #1,229 among girls’ names; 57,127 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 55,300 Americans named Alisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 30 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alisha is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
A modern spelling variant of Alicia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alisha?
#1,229 among girls’ names, 2025
Alisha fell from #921 in 2015 to #1,229 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.17 to 0.11 per 1,000.
2,457 babies in 1989, the peak
Alisha peaked in 1989, when 2,457 babies were given it (2,437 girls, #123 among girls’ names). The 183 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 183 | #1,229 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,140 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 192 | #1,226 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 223 | #1,111 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,249 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,093 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 229 | #1,089 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 276 | #956 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 314 | #870 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 269 | #987 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 298 | #921 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 305 | #891 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 297 | #866 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 307 | #866 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 360 | #764 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 352 | #782 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 375 | #760 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 476 | #648 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 554 | #552 | 0.29 |
| 2006 | 500 | #585 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 625 | #490 | 0.34 |
| 2004 | 685 | #446 | 0.37 |
| 2003 | 685 | #439 | 0.37 |
| 2002 | 711 | #409 | 0.40 |
| 2001 | 684 | #417 | 0.38 |
| 2000 | 715 | #401 | 0.39 |
| 1999 | 765 | #374 | 0.43 |
| 1998 | 857 | #341 | 0.49 |
| 1997 | 990 | #289 | 0.57 |
| 1996 | 1,163 | #240 | 0.66 |
| 1995 | 1,279 | #221 | 0.73 |
| 1994 | 1,497 | #200 | 0.84 |
| 1993 | 1,721 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 1,855 | #163 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 2,041 | #149 | 1.1 |
| 1990 | 2,342 | #135 | 1.2 |
| 1989 | 2,437 | #123 | 1.3 |
| 1988 | 2,268 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1987 | 2,392 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1986 | 2,236 | #125 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 2,211 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 1984 | 2,293 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 1983 | 2,048 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 2,015 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 1981 | 1,997 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 1980 | 1,854 | #151 | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 1,721 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 1,377 | #188 | 0.90 |
| 1977 | 1,316 | #201 | 0.86 |
| 1976 | 933 | #254 | 0.64 |
| 1975 | 791 | #296 | 0.54 |
| 1974 | 682 | #325 | 0.46 |
| 1973 | 590 | #360 | 0.40 |
| 1972 | 560 | #382 | 0.37 |
| 1971 | 528 | #406 | 0.32 |
| 1970 | 420 | #481 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 372 | #506 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 239 | #620 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 169 | #755 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 137 | #856 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 157 | #787 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 120 | #964 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 96 | #1,114 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,292 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 60 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,895 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,658 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alisha has been given almost only to girls: 131 boys in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alisha, and how old are they?
55,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 57,127 Americans ever recorded as Alisha. The median Alisha alive today is 38 years old; half are between 30 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 49,566 people named Alisha (49,456 women and girls, 110 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 54,630 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 427 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alisha born?
The states with the most babies named Alisha are Florida, New York and California, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 40 | #462 | 1.1× |
| New York | 20 | #790 | 0.8× |
| California | 17 | #1,363 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,461 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 8 | #724 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #850 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,117 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,044 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,060 | 1.2× |
Where Alisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alisha is most over-represented in Utah: since 1948 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,667 babies since 1880, Alisha is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 183 of their 323 babies (57%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alisha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alisha and names like it
- Compare Alisha and AlyshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAlisha peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alisha since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Alisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Alisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Alisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.