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The first name 
Alisha

Alisha is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Alisha is a common name for girls!

The name Alisha isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Alisha ranks 906. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Alisha. In the entire USA, approximately 54,258 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alisha. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Alisha

What does the name 
Alisha mean?

Alisha is a spelling variant of Alicia, a name mainly used in Spanish, English and French. Via Alice, it goes back to the Germanic name Adalheidis, which stands for ‘the noble one’.

Alisha is also a variant of the Arabic name... Aisha, one of the most popular names among Muslims. It means 'living' or 'alive'.

Alisha -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Alisha may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Alisha is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,167 women in Utah is called Alisha. In total, that’s 1,001 women who feel addressed when the name Alisha is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #309 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Alisha as the answer a total of 54,253 times. This places Alisha at #496 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Alisha as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Alisha has 6 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With six letters, the name Alisha is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, l, i, s, h and a

If you take all the letters in the name Alisha – A, l, i, s, h and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Alisah or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alisha

If your name is Alisha and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Alisha

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alisha, you can simply say:

Apple

Lion

Igloo

Sun

Hat

Apple

This is how the name Alisha is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Alisha in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Alisha

Alisha

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Alisha

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Alisha is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
L
I
S
H
A

Have you ever waved the name Alisha

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
L
I
S
H
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alisha sounds like this: