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Daisha

#5,007 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Daisha has been given to 4,696 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #5,007 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 313 recorded.

Babies named Daisha, 2025

1 in 128,000

Daisha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daisha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daisha means

Daisha is a given name.

The naming story behind Daisha

Wikidata records Daisha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q133823995, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,696 girls were recorded with the name Daisha between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 313 in 1995; its best national rank was #680 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,995 in 2020 to #5,007 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,424 in 2015 to #5,007 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 Daisha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,007
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daisha 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daisha was born before 1999 — so the typical Daisha is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,696
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (1,893).

Is Daisha 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
−424
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,988
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−583
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 1995 (313)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#680
1995

Spellings of Daisha

Daisha is not the most common spelling — Daisy is, with 22.1% against Daisha's 0.65%.

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 Daisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Daisha was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 50,597 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 20,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 25,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 25,000
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 33,333
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 33,333

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. Daisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daisha around the world

Where Daisha 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
    1999–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • France
    2020–2023
    #7,177
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1996–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Daisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,007
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,988
Best rank ever
#680
1995
Peak year
1995
313 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,696
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Daisha

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

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Names with a curve like Daisha

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

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Sibling names for Daisha

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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