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Laisha

#6,996 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Laisha has been given to 2,447 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #6,996 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 323 recorded.

Babies named Laisha, 2025

1 in 207,000

Laisha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laisha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laisha means

Laisha is a given name.

The naming story behind Laisha

Wikidata records Laisha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q66311233, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,447 girls were recorded with the name Laisha between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 323 in 2004; its best national rank was #791 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,745 in 2020 to #6,996 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,358 in 2015 to #6,996 in 2025.

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.

How common is Laisha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,996
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laisha 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 2025 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laisha was born before 2004 — so the typical Laisha is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
72.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,447
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 72.9% of all recorded uses (1,783).

Is Laisha 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
−1,110
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,749
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−638
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.0%
Peak was 2004 (323)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#791
2004

Spellings of Laisha

Laisha is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 57.2% against Laisha'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 Laisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Laisha was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 62,591 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 100,000

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

Laisha around the world

Where Laisha 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
    1997–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    2012–2012
    #6,879
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Laisha

People whose public names include Laisha, 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.

Laisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,996
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,749
Best rank ever
#791
2004
Peak year
2004
323 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,447
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Laisha

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

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Names with a curve like Laisha

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

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Sibling names for Laisha

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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