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Alishia

Girls' name

Variant of Alicia

Alishia has been given to 2,719 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Alishia, 2018

1 in 703,000

Alishia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alishia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alishia means

Alishia is a variant of Alicia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Alishia is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ə.ˈlɪʃ.jə/ and /ə.ˈliː.ʃjə/ for Alishia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alishia → Alicia → Adelais. The family’s meaning is “noble + character”, recorded in Old French with the source elements aþalaz and haiduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,719 girls were recorded with the name Alishia between 1960 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 132 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,163 in 1986.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alishia?

Alishia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alishia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alishia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alishias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alishia was born before 1987 — so the typical Alishia is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,719
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (1,108).

Is Alishia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (132)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,163
1986

Spellings of Alishia

Alishia is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 43.3% against Alishia's 0.51%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alishia is used

Across 1910–2025, Alishia was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 144,797 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alishia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alishia around the world

Where Alishia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    1999–2009
    #668
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2005–2008
    #862
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,051
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1983–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alishia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,163
1986
Peak year
1990
132 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
2,719
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alishia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Alishia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alishia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alishia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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