Lisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,382 babies named Lisha between 1954 and 2023, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 275 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lisha performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 1,157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 138 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Lisha in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lisha 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 2,382 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.