The name Elisha is of Hebrew origin and means ‘my God is salvation’. It is the short form of Elishu’a and is related to Elisheva, meaning ‘my God is an oath’, from which Elizabeth developed. Elisa is a short form of this name, not of Elisha.
Elisha is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.
Few children have been named Elisha in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 12 out of 100,000 children are currently called Elisha. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Elisha at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Elisha is number *** on the list of most common first names.
The name Elisha is of Hebrew origin and means ‘my God is salvation’. It is the short form of Elishu’a and is related to Elisheva, meaning ‘my God is an oath’, from which Elizabeth developed. Elisa is a short form of this name, not of Elisha.
Elisha has long... been known as a boy's name, but from about 1970 to 2000 it was more commonly given to girls. Since then it is again preferably a boy's name.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Elisha annualy. This means that there have been kids named Elisha who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Elisha have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Elisha even more than any other time: in 1883, it holds its present record of rank #522 in the list of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elisha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Elisha has never been ranked higher than #522. In 2022, it rivaled the 1,440 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 81 kids named Elisha were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Elisha were born, there have been 433 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Elisha 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.
Thus, it follows that with 3.8% of all first names starting with an E, this initial letter occurs exactly as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Elisha 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elisha, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elisha
Elisha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
I
S
H
A
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.
E
L
I
S
H
A
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. Elisha sounds like this:
