Carlisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carlisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 665 babies named Carlisha between 1977 and 2014, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carlisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 40 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 280 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Carlisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Carlisha in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 665 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.