Girl · Germanic, through Latin and English
Alisha
Say it: uh-LEE-shuh
Meaning
A phonetic spelling of Alicia, a Latinized form of Alice (Germanic adal 'noble' and heid 'kind, sort').
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Popular in the US in the 1980s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 56,111 babies given this name since 1948
- At its height in 1987, about 1 in 727 girls
- 222 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Alicia, Alesha, Alysha
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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