Kalisha
#16,045 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalisha has been given to 1,298 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #16,045 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 83 recorded.
Babies named Kalisha, 2025
1 in 663,000
Kalisha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kalisha?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,045
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalisha 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kalishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalisha was born before 1989 — so the typical Kalisha is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 32.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,298
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (422).
Is Kalisha 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
- −2,347
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.0%
- Peak was 1978 (83)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kalisha
Kalisha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 12.8% against Kalisha's 0.29%.
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 Kalisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Kalisha was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 436,607 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 2South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Georgia1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 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. Kalisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kalisha around the world
Where Kalisha 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#5,892in 2024
- South Australia1996–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kalisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kalisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.