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Talisha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Talisha has been given to 2,911 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 140 recorded.

Babies named Talisha, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Talisha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Talisha means

Talisha is a given name.

The naming story behind Talisha

Wikidata records Talisha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q123022463, 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, 2,911 girls were recorded with the name Talisha between 1967 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 140 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,105 in 1983.

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 Talisha?

Talisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Talisha 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Talisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Talishas were born

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

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,911
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (1,141).

Is Talisha 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 (140)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,105
1983

Spellings of Talisha

Talisha is not the most common spelling — Tabitha is, with 10.3% against Talisha's 0.51%.

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 Talisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Talisha was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 104,669 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Talisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Talisha around the world

Where Talisha 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
    1996–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2001–2001
    #2,269
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1988–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Talisha 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
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Best rank ever
#1,105
1983
Peak year
1989
140 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,911
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Talisha

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

TaleshaTalithaTaleahTaleishaTaliahTalayahTallulahTaliyahAleishaTalayaDanishaTalyaKenishaTalulahAlayshaTaleenTaliyaTalinaTalayshaTaishaPrishaTaleyahKalishaKeesha

Names with a curve like Talisha

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

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Sibling names for Talisha

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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