Alisha
#1,229 for girls in 2025, 183 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 2,392 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 56,996since 1948
Alisha over time
Rank among girls' names. Alisha has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,229 | 183 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,140 | 212 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,226 | 192 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,111 | 223 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,249 | 188 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,093 | 223 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,089 | 229 | — | |
| 2018 | #956 | 276 | — | |
| 2017 | #870 | 314 | — | |
| 2016 | #987 | 269 | — | |
| 2015 | #921 | 298 | — | |
| 2014 | #891 | 305 | — | |
| 2013 | #866 | 297 | — | |
| 2012 | #865 | 307 | — | |
| 2011 | #764 | 360 | — | |
| 2010 | #782 | 352 | — | |
| 2009 | #760 | 375 | — | |
| 2008 | #648 | 476 | — | |
| 2007 | #552 | 554 | — | |
| 2006 | #585 | 500 | — | |
| 2005 | #490 | 625 | — | |
| 2004 | #446 | 685 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #439 | 685 | — | |
| 2002 | #409 | 711 | — | |
| 2001 | #417 | 684 | — | |
| 2000 | #401 | 715 | — | |
| 1999 | #374 | 765 | — | |
| 1998 | #341 | 857 | — | |
| 1997 | #289 | 990 | — | |
| 1996 | #240 | 1,163 | — | |
| 1995 | #221 | 1,279 | — | |
| 1994 | #200 | 1,497 | — | |
| 1993 | #173 | 1,721 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #163 | 1,855 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #149 | 2,041 | — | |
| 1990 | #135 | 2,342 | — | |
| 1989 | #123 | 2,437 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #126 | 2,268 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #118 | 2,392 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #125 | 2,236 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #131 | 2,211 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #123 | 2,293 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #141 | 2,048 | — | |
| 1982 | #145 | 2,015 | — | |
| 1981 | #142 | 1,997 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #151 | 1,854 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #162 | 1,721 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #188 | 1,377 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #201 | 1,316 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #254 | 933 | — | |
| 1975 | #296 | 791 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #325 | 682 | — | |
| 1973 | #360 | 590 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #382 | 560 | — | |
| 1971 | #406 | 528 | — | |
| 1970 | #481 | 420 | — | |
| 1969 | #506 | 372 | — | |
| 1968 | #620 | 239 | — | |
| 1967 | #755 | 169 | — | |
| 1966 | #856 | 137 | — | |
| 1965 | #787 | 157 | — | |
| 1964 | #964 | 120 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,113 | 96 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,292 | 73 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,598 | 50 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,417 | 60 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,517 | 21 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
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| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alisha! It came in at #4,651, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alisha is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#335 · 1 in 1,524
- Massachusetts#379 · 1 in 1,698
- Connecticut#394 · 1 in 1,761
- New York#447 · 1 in 2,191
- Florida#729 · 1 in 3,941
Best ever in a state: #48 in Wyoming, 1988.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #335 | 24 | 1 in 1,524 |
| Massachusetts | #379 | 15 | 1 in 1,698 |
| Connecticut | #394 | 7 | 1 in 1,761 |
| New York | #447 | 41 | 1 in 2,191 |
| Florida | #729 | 22 | 1 in 3,941 |
| Ohio | #765 | 12 | 1 in 4,339 |
| Maryland | #777 | 6 | 1 in 4,007 |
| Virginia | #842 | 8 | 1 in 4,642 |
| Pennsylvania | #940 | 9 | 1 in 5,761 |
| California | #950 | 35 | 1 in 5,821 |
| Washington | #1,100 | 5 | 1 in 6,429 |
| Georgia | #1,178 | 7 | 1 in 6,864 |
| North Carolina | #1,215 | 6 | 1 in 7,552 |
| Texas | #1,225 | 21 | 1 in 7,966 |
| Illinois | #1,307 | 7 | 1 in 8,232 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alisha
- 89 spots since 2024 (#1,140 → #1,229)
- 136 spots since 2020 (#1,093 → #1,229)
- 308 spots since 2015 (#921 → #1,229)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1965 (#964 → #787)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 2019 (#956 → #1,089)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1987 at #118 (2,392 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 55 yrs · run 1964–2018
- Highest: 1 in 727 girls born in 1987 were named Alisha (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,783 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.2% of all girls named Alisha (21,751) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 14 | #3,892 (1949) | #4,272 |
| 1950s | 92 | #2,517 (1959) | #3,953 |
| 1960s | 1,473 | #506 (1969) | #991 |
| 1970s | 8,918 | #162 (1979) | #306 |
| 1980s | 21,751 | #118 (1987) | #133 |
| 1990s | 14,510 | #135 (1990) | #229 |
| 2000s | 6,010 | #401 (2000) | #515 |
| 2010s | 3,007 | #764 (2011) | #899 |
| 2020s | 1,221 | #1,093 (2020) | #1,175 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alisha in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,587 of them was named Alisha, which outranked 94.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.