Felisha
Felisha was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 5,903 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,670 Americans named Felisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 34 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Felisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Felisha is “a female given name, variant of Felicia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Felisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,028, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
291 babies in 1989, the peak
Felisha peaked in 1989, when 291 girls were given it, #693 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,028 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,363 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,472 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,128 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,327 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,405 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,512 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,238 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,916 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,463 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 15 | #8,184 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,059 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,953 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,867 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,149 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,979 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,966 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,862 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,746 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,639 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,376 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,051 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,787 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,287 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 147 | #1,169 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 173 | #1,052 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 218 | #887 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 242 | #826 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 259 | #791 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 264 | #774 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 291 | #693 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 286 | #677 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 271 | #680 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 253 | #707 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 236 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 145 | #998 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,171 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 152 | #973 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 138 | #1,038 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 141 | #1,023 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 156 | #943 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 150 | #944 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 190 | #789 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 144 | #910 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 150 | #886 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 129 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 107 | #1,078 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 125 | #967 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 95 | #1,196 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,251 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,543 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,447 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,834 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,986 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,641 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,427 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,022 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,153 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,330 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,722 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Felisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Felisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felisha, and how old are they?
5,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 5,903 Americans ever recorded as Felisha. The median Felisha alive today is 39 years old; half are between 34 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 4,843 people named Felisha (4,836 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,725 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 138 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,640 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 605 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 50 |
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 Felisha born?
The states with the most babies named Felisha are Texas, California and New York, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 605 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 480 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 279 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 232 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 202 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Mississippi | 189 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 178 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 163 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 138 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 129 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Felisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Felisha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1953 it was given 2.8 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 Felisha 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,539 babies since 1880, Felisha is the most given (90% of them).
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 Felisha
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 Felisha and names like it
- Compare Felisha and FelishiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sFelisha peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Felisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Felisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Felisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.