Dalisha
#10,276 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dalisha has been given to 344 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #10,276 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Dalisha, 2025
1 in 368,000
Dalisha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dalisha?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,276
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dalisha sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dalisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dalishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dalisha was born before 1992 — so the typical Dalisha is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 46.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 344
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (160).
Is Dalisha 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
- +3,597
- Places climbed
- 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
- 33.3%
- Peak was 1990 (27)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.0% average annual change
Spellings of Dalisha
Dalisha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 14.3% against Dalisha's 0.09%.
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 Dalisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Dalisha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,572,154 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Dalisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dalisha around the world
Where Dalisha 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 & Wales2010–2010#4,688in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dalisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dalisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dalisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.