Kalisha
Kalisha was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,045 among girls’ names; 1,298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Kalisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 28 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalisha?
#16,045 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalisha fell from #13,698 in 2015 to #16,045 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.1 per million.
83 babies in 1978, the peak
Kalisha peaked in 1978, when 83 girls were given it, #1,402 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,045 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,252 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,856 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,717 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,825 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,507 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,698 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,767 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,889 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,382 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #12,720 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,843 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,125 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,413 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,208 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,813 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,400 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,450 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,737 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,026 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,451 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,073 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,273 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,920 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,910 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,985 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,821 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,719 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,691 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,492 | 27.7 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,395 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,210 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,725 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,667 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,988 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,238 | 26.8 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,766 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,207 | 26.7 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,448 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,000 | 30.7 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,282 | 26.4 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,079 | 30.1 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,199 | 28.0 |
| 1978 | 83 | #1,402 | 54.2 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,320 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,868 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,703 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,767 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,764 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,668 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,731 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,584 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalisha, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,298 Americans ever recorded as Kalisha. The median Kalisha alive today is 37 years old; half are between 28 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,031 people named Kalisha (1,029 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 281 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 639 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 289 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 52 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,013 babies since 1880, Kalisha is the most given (64% 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 Kalisha
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 Kalisha and names like it
- Compare Kalisha and KaleshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKalisha peaked in 1978.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kalisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kalisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.