Lisha

Where Lisha comes from

Clipping of Alicia, Felicia /Felisha, and other names ending with the same sound.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lisha
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1954
    First appearance
    #5,753 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #597
    275 babies named Lisha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #929.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Lisha turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.