Allisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Allisha has been given to 865 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1987, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Allisha, 2011
1 in 732,000
Allisha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Allisha?
Allisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Allisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Allisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Allishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Allisha was born before 1989 — so the typical Allisha is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 39.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 865
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (343).
Is Allisha 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (52)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.9% average annual change
Spellings of Allisha
Allisha is not the most common spelling — Allison is, with 54.6% against Allisha's 0.15%.
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 Allisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Allisha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,012,844 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Washington1 in —
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. Allisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Allisha around the world
Where Allisha 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 & Wales1997–2008#4,524in 2008
- Canada1991–1995#2,277in 1995
- South Australia1983–1997#681in 1997
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Allisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Allisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Allisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.