Falisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Falisha has been given to 910 babies in the U.S. since 1966. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 53 recorded.
Babies named Falisha, 2020
1 in 668,000
Falisha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Falisha?
Falisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 323,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Falisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Falisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Falishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Falisha was born before 1988 — so the typical Falisha is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 37.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 910
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (338).
Is Falisha 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- 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
- 0%
- Peak was 1985 (53)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.4% average annual change
Spellings of Falisha
Falisha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 15.9% against Falisha's 0.25%.
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 Falisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Falisha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 631,998 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Oklahoma1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Falisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Falisha around the world
Where Falisha 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 & Wales2004–2024#4,193in 2024
- France2017–2017#7,189in 2017
- Canada2008–2019#2,941in 2019
- South Australia2007–2011#840in 2011
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.
Falisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Falisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Falisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.