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Disha

#9,616 in 2025Girls' name

Region, direction

Disha has been given to 793 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #9,616 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Disha, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Disha: meaning, origin, and history

Region, direction

Sanskrit

What Disha means

Disha means “region, direction”.

Origin, language, and formation

Disha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 793 girls were recorded with the name Disha between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,175 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,399 in 2020 to #9,616 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,165 in 2015 to #9,616 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Disha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,616
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Disha 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Disha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Disha was born before 2007 — so the typical Disha is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
793
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (320).

Is Disha 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
−536
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,217
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,451
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.4%
Peak was 2005 (49)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,175
2005

Spellings of Disha

Disha is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 52.0% against Disha's 0.04%.

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 Disha is used

Across 1910–2025, Disha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 349,920 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Disha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Disha around the world

Where Disha 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
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2022
    #6,734
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2002–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Disha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,616
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,217
Best rank ever
#3,175
2005
Peak year
2005
49 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
793
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Disha

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

RashaAeshaRishaEeshaMyshaMashaAashaNyshaAmishaLayshaElyshaVarshaEishaArishaAyishaKaishaSaishaAushaNeishaLishaKayshaDeshaYashaTysha

Sibling names for Disha

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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