Elysha
#13,705 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elysha has been given to 728 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #13,705 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Elysha, 2025
1 in 553,000
Elysha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elysha?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,705
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elysha 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elysha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elyshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elysha was born before 1993 — so the typical Elysha is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 29.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 697
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (231).
Is Elysha 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
- +2,279
- 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
- 13.6%
- Peak was 1989 (44)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.2% average annual change
Spellings of Elysha
Elysha is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 52.7% against Elysha's 0.12%.
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 Elysha is used
Across 1910–2025, Elysha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 550,664 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Massachusetts1 in —
- 3New York1 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. Elysha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Elysha around the world
Where Elysha 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 & Wales1996–2024#4,193in 2024
- France2008–2025#1,742in 2025
- Canada1991–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia1977–2008#796in 2008
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.
Elysha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Elysha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elysha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.