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Lisha

#14,213 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Alicia

Lisha has been given to 2,388 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #14,213 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 275 recorded.

Babies named Lisha, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lisha: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Alicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lisha means

Lisha is a short form of Alicia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lisha is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪʃ.ə/ for Lisha.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lisha → Alicia → Adelais. The family’s meaning is “noble + character”, recorded in Old French with the source elements aþalaz and haiduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,388 girls were recorded with the name Lisha between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 275 in 1960; its best national rank was #598 in 1960.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,875 in 2015 to #14,213 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lisha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,213
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lisha 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lisha was born before 1970 — so the typical Lisha is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,388
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (1,157).

Is Lisha 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
−338
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.2%
Peak was 1960 (275)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#598
1960

Spellings of Lisha

Lisha is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 42.7% against Lisha's 0.07%.

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 Lisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Lisha was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 138,079 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Lisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lisha around the world

Where Lisha 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1976–1985
    #671
    in 1985

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.

Lisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,213
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#598
1960
Peak year
1960
275 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,388
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Lisha

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

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Names with a curve like Lisha

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

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Sibling names for Lisha

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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