Kalisha

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kalisha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Belize it is the 63rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 323K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 125K
  • BZBelize≈1 in 128K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,031 people, 2020

Sources
193 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kalisha 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.

Where Kalisha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0311 in 323K1KKalisha193
GB United Kingdom—≈110 est.≈1 in 589KlistedKalisha54
CA Canada—≈62 est.≈1 in 612K—Kalisha29
NG Nigeria—≈61 est.≈1 in 3.5M—Kalisha6
MY Malaysia—≈50 est.≈1 in 651K—Kalisha7
AU Australia—≈44 est.≈1 in 576K1Kalisha30
JM Jamaica—≈17 est.≈1 in 162K—Kalisha4
GY Guyana—61 in 125K6—2
BZ Belize#63≈3 est.≈1 in 128K—Kalisha1

1,031 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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kalisha is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Kãlïshä

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Gabon

    Also written Kalïsha

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kalisha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, Applicative form of -kaa: to seat

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Kalisha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#12,167
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197883—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199058—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198252—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199251—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198050—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198646—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199445—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199345—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198445—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197945—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198144—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kalisha a male or female name?
Kalisha 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.
What are other forms of the name Kalisha?
In the etymology graph, Ali, Alicia and Alice are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Kalisha have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Kalisha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalisha.
Where is Kalisha most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalisha is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kalisha?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,031 people named Kalisha in 2020, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
How common is Kalisha compared with other names?
In Belize, Kalisha is the 63rd most common given name of 1,397 given names recorded there.

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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, “Kalisha” — the 63rd most common given name in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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