Alisha
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alisha is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. In Thailand it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Alicia/Alice; 'noble', 'truthful', or 'wise counsellor'.
- BRBrazil1 in 433◐
- ESSpain1 in 495
- CZCzechia1 in 586
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.2M ●
- #746 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 507 ●
- 1 in 231 ◐
across 16 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.3M records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alisa in PL Poland, SE Sweden, DE Germany and 4 more, Alyssa in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 3 more, Алиса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more and Arissa in BR Brazil, MY Malaysia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
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 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #108 | 795,594 | 338K rec. | — | #53 | Алиса | 169 |
| BR Brazil | — | 488,951△ | 463 rec. | 1 in 433 | 489K | Arissa | 52 |
| US United States | #278 | 274,237 | 1.5M rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 274K | Alyssa | 507 |
| FR France | — | 208,595△ | 148 rec. | 1 in 325 | 209K | Alysa | 36 |
| TH Thailand | #52 | 207,086 | 98K rec. | — | #543,307 | อรสา | 143 |
| UA Ukraine | #144 | 117,512 | 117K rec. | — | listed | Аліса | 60 |
| ES Spain | — | 101,069△ | 3K rec. | 1 in 495 | 101K | Alicia | 50 |
| AU Australia | #297 | 71,337 | 47K rec. | — | 328 | Alyssa | 206 |
| CA Canada | #227 | 60,336 | 29K rec. | — | 52 | Alyssa | 190 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 55,627 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Алиса | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | #469 | 51,527 | 43K rec. | — | 896 | Alisha | 174 |
| SE Sweden | — | 44,227△ | 870 rec. | 1 in 231 | 44K | Alisa | 41 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English438K74%
- Hindi38K6%
- 32K5%
- Spanish17K3%
- German5.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 438,339 | 74% |
| Hindi | 37,644 | 6% |
| 31,803 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 16,520 | 3% |
| German | 5,783 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 2 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 2 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1951 | 3 |
| 1952 | 4 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 2 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 2 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 4 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 4 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 16 |
| 1974 | 11 |
| 1975 | 14 |
| 1976 | 14 |
| 1977 | 17 |
| 1978 | 21 |
| 1979 | 17 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1981 | 25 |
| 1982 | 37 |
| 1983 | 47 |
| 1984 | 61 |
| 1985 | 73 |
| 1986 | 88 |
| 1987 | 126 |
| 1988 | 175 |
| 1989 | 178 |
| 1990 | 222 |
| 1991 | 233 |
| 1992 | 303 |
| 1993 | 348 |
| 1994 | 355 |
| 1995 | 452 |
| 1996 | 359 |
| 1997 | 348 |
| 1998 | 278 |
| 1999 | 24 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 16 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 81 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 80 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49K | #907 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 981 | #2,098 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 604 | #2,221 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 267 | #4,258 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 254 | #881 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 251 | #7,579 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 242 | #359 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 222 | #606 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 191 | #4,227 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 183 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 161 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 135 | #1,283 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 760 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Alisha?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Alisha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Alisha have the most bearers?
- Alisha is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled алиса.
- Where is Alisha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alisha is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 231 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Alisha compared with other names?
- In Russia, Alisha is the 108th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Alisha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of Alicia/Alice; 'noble', 'truthful', or 'wise counsellor'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 108th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.