Arisha
Arisha was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,214 among girls’ names; 989 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arisha?
#3,214 among girls’ names, 2025
Arisha rose from #3,849 in 2015 to #3,214 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 30.5 per million.
54 babies in 2019, the peak
Arisha peaked in 2019, when 54 girls were given it, #3,007 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,214 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,341 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,770 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,475 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,553 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,145 | 30.9 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,007 | 32.2 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,364 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,199 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,001 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,849 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,277 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,434 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,593 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,580 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,117 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,582 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,371 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,389 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,518 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,850 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,803 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,749 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,235 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,427 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,238 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,885 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,709 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,646 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,654 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,097 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,554 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,460 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,302 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,813 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,945 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,926 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,627 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,841 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,516 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,359 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,462 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,218 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,866 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,608 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,161 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,372 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 978 Americans named Arisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 758 people named Arisha (755 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 720 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 Arisha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 22 | #736 | 3.6× |
| California | 5 | #3,161 | 0.5× |
Where Arisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arisha is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 3.6 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 Arisha 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,531 babies since 1880, Arisha is the most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 80 babies (61%), 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 Arisha
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 Arisha and names like it
- Compare Arisha and ArushiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArisha peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arisha since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Arisha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arisha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.