Alisha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Alicia/Alice; 'noble', 'truthful', or 'wise counsellor'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑˈɫiʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alisha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 38th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Alyssa
- THThailand≈1 in 3.9Kas อรสา
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alisha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #865 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 568 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
274,552 named Alyssa, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alyssa in US United States, PH Philippines and อรสา in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Alicia/Alice; 'noble', 'truthful', or 'wise counsellor'.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alisha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #370 | 274,552as Alyssa | 1 in 1.2K | 274K | Alyssa | 568 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | Alisha | 52 |
| PH Philippines | #714 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Alyssa | 154 |
| TH Thailand | #38 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | #543,307 | อรสา | 146 |
| FI Finland | — | 9,116as Alisa | 1 in 611 | 11K | — | 19 |
| MD Moldova | — | 5,128as Alisa | 1 in 656 | 5.1K | — | 12 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,204as Alisa | 1 in 854 | 2.2K | — | 3 |
274,552 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alisha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, in den i97oer-Jahren aus dem Eng lischen übernommener weibl. Vom., phone
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alisha Chinaib. 1965INIndian singer
- Alishab. 1968USAmerican singer
- Alisha Klassb. 1972USAmerican pornographic actress
- Alisha Morrisonb. 1986CACanadian actress
- Alisha Glassb. 1988USAmerican volleyball player
- Alisha Wainwrightb. 1989USAmerican actress
- Alisha Boeb. 1997NONorwegian actress (born 1997)
- Alisha Lehmannb. 1999CHSwiss association football player
- Alisha Newtonb. 2001CACanadian actress
- Alisha Weirb. 2009IEIrish actress and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49K | #907 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 183 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 131 | #2,393 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 110 | #907 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 3 | #5,145 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3 | #13,137 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Alisha?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑˈɫiʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Alisha mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Alicia/Alice; 'noble', 'truthful', or 'wise counsellor'. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Alisha?
- In the etymology graph, Alicia, Alice and Alyssa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Alisha a male or female name?
- Alisha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Alisha have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 275 thousand people named Alyssa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Alisha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 274,552 people named Alyssa in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Alisha compared with other names?
- In the United States, Alisha is the 370th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alishaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alisha” — the 370th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.