girls:
89 births since 1982
#5627 (2nd percentile)
overall:
89 births since 1982
#7650 (1st percentile)
The name Onisha is the #7,650 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 89 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,627 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 1982.
Onisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (first recorded for girls in 1982). Birth data for Onisha is available in 11 out of the 19 years between 1982 and 2000. 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.
For girls, Onisha reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #830) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Onisha".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Oneisha. View all variations of Oneisha.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Onisha", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Oneisha" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Oneisha..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Onisha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.3% confident that Onisha is pronounced as oh-NEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-NEE-shuh, at 12.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Onisha? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Onisha. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Onisha, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like OW0 N IY1 SH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker