Laisha
Laisha was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,996 among girls’ names; 2,447 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Laisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 19 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laisha?
#6,996 among girls’ names, 2025
Laisha fell from #6,358 in 2015 to #6,996 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 10.0 per million.
323 babies in 2004, the peak
Laisha peaked in 2004, when 323 girls were given it, #791 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,996 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,886 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,474 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,143 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,481 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,745 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,577 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,010 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,967 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,221 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,358 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,556 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,594 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,416 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,711 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,923 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,476 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,474 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,610 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 126 | #1,675 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 202 | #1,149 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 323 | #791 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 236 | #982 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 195 | #1,091 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 192 | #1,104 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 216 | #982 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,541 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,042 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,900 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,684 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,283 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,802 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,295 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,385 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,815 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,098 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,088 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,586 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,070 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laisha 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 Laisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laisha, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,447 Americans ever recorded as Laisha. The median Laisha alive today is 22 years old; half are between 19 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,924 people named Laisha (1,913 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,335 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 | 32 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 145 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 223 |
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 Laisha born?
The states with the most babies named Laisha are Texas, California and New York, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 514 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 501 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 175 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 110 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Laisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laisha is most over-represented in Texas: since 1977 it was given 2.1 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 Laisha 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 10,122 babies since 1880, Laisha is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 30 babies (53%), the most given that year.
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 Laisha
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 Laisha and names like it
- Compare Laisha and LashayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaisha peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laisha since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Laisha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laisha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.