Talisha
Talisha was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,911 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Talisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Talisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Talisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Talisha is “a female given name.”
From ta- + Lisha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Talisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,354, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
140 babies in 1989, the peak
Talisha peaked in 1989, when 140 girls were given it, #1,174 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,354 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,490 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,912 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,616 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,043 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,390 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,412 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,657 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,221 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,387 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,907 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,479 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,959 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,105 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,219 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,692 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,401 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,137 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,927 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,511 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,435 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,686 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,548 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,144 | 36.5 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,145 | 35.8 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,040 | 38.6 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,807 | 44.8 |
| 1992 | 95 | #1,617 | 51.5 |
| 1991 | 99 | #1,556 | 52.8 |
| 1990 | 120 | #1,334 | 63.2 |
| 1989 | 140 | #1,174 | 75.9 |
| 1988 | 135 | #1,138 | 75.8 |
| 1987 | 105 | #1,316 | 60.4 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,417 | 53.0 |
| 1985 | 95 | #1,371 | 55.2 |
| 1984 | 111 | #1,189 | 65.9 |
| 1983 | 124 | #1,105 | 74.2 |
| 1982 | 126 | #1,124 | 74.4 |
| 1981 | 99 | #1,293 | 59.4 |
| 1980 | 115 | #1,173 | 69.3 |
| 1979 | 123 | #1,111 | 76.6 |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,183 | 69.8 |
| 1977 | 76 | #1,465 | 49.6 |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,444 | 49.8 |
| 1975 | 80 | #1,348 | 54.9 |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,413 | 49.7 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,752 | 35.0 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,767 | 32.9 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,590 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,556 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,939 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,587 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,720 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Talisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Talisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Talisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Talisha, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,911 Americans ever recorded as Talisha. The median Talisha alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 2,364 people named Talisha (2,364 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 776 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 411 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56 |
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 Talisha born?
The states with the most babies named Talisha are New York, Texas and California, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 201 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 135 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 111 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 78 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 73 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 67 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 56 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Talisha 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,068 babies since 1880, Talisha is the most given (72% 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 Talisha
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 Talisha and names like it
- Compare Talisha and TaleshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTalisha peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Talisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Talisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Talisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.