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Arisha

#3,214 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Arina

Arisha has been given to 989 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #3,214 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Arisha, 2025

1 in 67,700

Arisha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arisha: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Arina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arisha means

Arisha is a diminutive of Arina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 989 girls were recorded with the name Arisha between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2019; its best national rank was #3,007 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,145 in 2020 to #3,214 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,849 in 2015 to #3,214 in 2025.

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.

How common is Arisha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,214
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arisha 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 2025 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arisha was born before 2014 — so the typical Arisha is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
989
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (404).

Is Arisha 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
+127
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−69
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+635
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.26×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.7%
Peak was 2019 (54)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,007
2019

Spellings of Arisha

Arisha is not the most common spelling — Marissa is, with 10.0% against Arisha's 0.08%.

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 Arisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Arisha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 169,158 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Arisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arisha around the world

Where Arisha 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
    1998–2025
    #763
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2013
    #663
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2012–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    2008–2025
    #4,895
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Arisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,214
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 69
Best rank ever
#3,007
2019
Peak year
2019
54 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
989
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Arisha

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

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Sibling names for Arisha

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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