Felisha

Where Felisha comes from

The dictionaries list Felisha as a given name — a female given name, variant of Felicia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #4,595 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Felisha Terrell born
    American actress
  3. 1988
    Peak, #675
    286 babies named Felisha — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,288.
  5. 2005
    Felisha Pasaribu born
    Indonesian badminton player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Felicia.
Namesakes
  • Felisha Terrell · American actress, born 1979
  • Felisha Pasaribu · Indonesian badminton player, born 2005
  • Felisha Legette-Jack · American basketball coach, born 1966
  • Felisha Leffler · American politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.