Telisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Telisha has been given to 1,182 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1980, with 93 recorded.
Babies named Telisha, 2007
1 in 666,000
Telisha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Telisha?
Telisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 666,000
- 6 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 320,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 461,839 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Telisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Telisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Telishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Telisha was born before 1983 — so the typical Telisha is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,182
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (500).
Is Telisha 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1980 (93)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.5% average annual change
Spellings of Telisha
Telisha is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 69.9% against Telisha's 0.11%.
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 Telisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Telisha was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 452,230 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 100,000
- 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4Alabama1 in —
- 5California1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Michigan1 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. Telisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Telisha around the world
Where Telisha 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 & Wales1997–2011#4,764in 2011
- South Australia1991–2006#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.
Telisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Telisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Telisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.