Jalisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jalisha has been given to 542 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1990, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Jalisha, 2011
1 in 406,000
Jalisha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jalisha?
Jalisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 406,000
- 9 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 195,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 281,722 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jalisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 281,722 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jalishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalisha was born before 1993 — so the typical Jalisha is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 56.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 542
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (308).
Is Jalisha 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (60)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.1% average annual change
Spellings of Jalisha
Jalisha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 14.2% against Jalisha's 0.14%.
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 Jalisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Jalisha was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 387,201 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3Alabama1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6South Carolina1 in —
- 7Texas1 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. Jalisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jalisha around the world
Where Jalisha 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.
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jalisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jalisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jalisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.