girls:
56.6k births since 1948
#532 (91st percentile)
boys:
131 births since 1973
#4455 (3rd percentile)
overall:
56.7k births since 1948
#992 (87th percentile)
The name Alisha is the #992 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 56,726 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 87.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #532 (90.7% percentile) for all time with 56,595 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,455 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 131 births since 1973.
Alisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Alisha is available in 75 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (75 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alisha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alisha reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 85.4% percentile (ranked #118) with 1,276 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 1,276 births per million (ranked 85.4% percentile). Despite a low point in 2016, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Alisha ranks #760 for girls (19.8% percentile) with 110 births per million, which is 8.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alisha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #738) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alisha".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alisha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.7% confident that Alisha is pronounced as uh-LEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LIH-shuh, at 35.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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