Alisha
Featured in baby name books
Alisha is a Hindu name meaning “protected by God,” and it also works as a spelling of Alicia, with just one pronunciation. Alisha is also a variant of Alice, meaning “nobility,” and is linked to a Greek word for “truthful.”
Sources: 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), 10,000 Baby Names, Numerology for Baby Names
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Usage of Alisha in different languages / cultures
The list below was created by gathering names from various sources for different languages, and then matching Alisha against each list of names.
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Albanian
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Bengali
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Bulgarian
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Catalan
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Chinese
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Cornish
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Dutch
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English
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French
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Georgian
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German
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Greek
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Hawaiian
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Hebrew
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Hungarian
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Indonesian
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Irish
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Italian
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Japanese
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Romanian
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Russian
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Note: In some cases it is possible for the check mark to be missing even if Alisha is used in a particular country, as almost no source name list has 100% coverage.
Alisha in official name statistics
United States
In 2025, 183 girls were named Alisha, making it the #1229 girls' name in the US. Since 1948, 56,996 girls have been named Alisha, with the most (2,437) in 1989. It is most common, relative to births, in Florida, Indiana and New York.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880–2025. Names given to fewer than 5 babies in a year are not listed.
Other countries
Counts are babies born that year, or living people for "all ages" rows, as published by each country's statistics office or population register.
Alisha songs
One song on Wikidata has Alisha in its title:
Song data: Wikidata (CC0), ordered by how widely each song is covered on Wikipedia.
Celebrities named Alisha
Based on celebrities listed on Wikipedia, filtered to only those with the first name Alisha.
Alisha Inacio
Fictional characters named Alisha
Characters from films and TV series, from Wikidata, ordered by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
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Alisha as a pet name
FurryName has found 5 dogs named Alisha in public pet registers, making it the #11,804 dog name there. Most of them are registered in New York City (3), Basel (1), Allegheny County (1). Alisha as a dog name →
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