Lisha
Lisha was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,213 among girls’ names; 2,388 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Lisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 44 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lisha is “a female given name.”
Clipping of Alicia, Felicia /Felisha, and other names ending with the same sound.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lisha?
#14,213 among girls’ names, 2025
Lisha fell from #13,875 in 2015 to #14,213 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.7 per million.
275 babies in 1960, the peak
Lisha peaked in 1960, when 275 girls were given it, #598 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,213 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,900 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,120 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,370 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,447 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,875 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,759 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,144 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,641 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,241 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 9 | #12,009 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,855 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,241 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,423 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,949 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,327 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,549 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,326 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,512 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,178 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,627 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,911 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,853 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,128 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,641 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,814 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,732 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,598 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,576 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,346 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,043 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,924 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,890 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,812 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,152 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,764 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,809 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,816 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,530 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,892 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,496 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 58 | #1,568 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,426 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,630 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 67 | #1,331 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 64 | #1,385 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 78 | #1,251 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 129 | #930 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 143 | #880 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 231 | #683 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 275 | #598 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,233 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lisha, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,388 Americans ever recorded as Lisha. The median Lisha alive today is 56 years old; half are between 44 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 2,623 people named Lisha (2,600 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 759 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 822 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 447 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 114 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 36 |
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 Lisha born?
The states with the most babies named Lisha are California, Texas and Ohio, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 138 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 109 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 68 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 64 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 50 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 49 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 45 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 34 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Lisha 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,519 babies since 1880, Lisha is the most given (95% 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 Lisha
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 Lisha and names like it
- Compare Lisha and LyshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLisha peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Lisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.