Alishba
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 22 babies a year in England and Wales.
Alishba by the numbers
In 2025, 22 babies in England and Wales were named Alishba. In the US, 14 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 43 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Alishba
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Alishba. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Alishanoble, exalted; a form of Alicia113 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alishia
- Aishaalive; living; woman436 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alisanoble kind; variant of Alice48 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alissanoble; a form of Alice222 in the US (2017)
- Anishacomplete, whole, without flaw11 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Alishba
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