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Felisha

Girls' name

Happy things, through Felicia

Felisha has been given to 5,903 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1989, with 291 recorded.

Babies named Felisha, 2024

1 in 557,000

Felisha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Felisha: meaning, origin, and history

Happy things, through Felicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Felisha means

Felisha belongs to the name family reached through Felisha → Felicia. Its meaning is “happy things”.

Origin, language, and formation

Felisha is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Felicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,903 girls were recorded with the name Felisha between 1953 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 291 in 1989; its best national rank was #677 in 1988.

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 Felisha?

Felisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Felisha 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Felisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Felisha was born before 1986 — so the typical Felisha is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,903
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (2,025).

Is Felisha 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (291)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#677
1988

Spellings of Felisha

Felisha is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 69.9% against Felisha's 0.54%.

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 Felisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Felisha was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 38,095 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 7,143
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 11,111
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 25,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 25,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 25,000

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

Felisha around the world

Where Felisha 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
    2000–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Felisha

People whose public names include Felisha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Felisha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Felisha. Linked forms have their own page here.

FelisaFalishaFeliça

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Felisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#677
1988
Peak year
1989
291 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5,903
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Felisha

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

FeleshaKenishaFeleciaFelicityAleishaAyeshaDanishaDaishaAleshaAnishaFelicePorshaAlayshaTanishaAlyshaLatoshaTaneshaPrishaTaishaFeliciaKalishaKeeshaDayshaDenisha

Names with a curve like Felisha

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

ChantelleShantellTaneshaShanteKristanKiaCoreySamathaCharissaJaimieDannielleAlesha

Sibling names for Felisha

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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