Delisha

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Delisha by the numbers

Delisha was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 53 babies in 1989, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Delisha

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 Delisha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Denisha9 in the US (2017)
  • Delisa6 in the US (2017)
  • Deliafrom Delos; epithet of Artemis170 in the US (2017)
  • Deliladelicate or weak; variant of Delilah41 in the US (2017)
  • Deliahdelicate; a variant spelling of Delilah21 in the US (2017)
  • Deekshainitiation or consecration20 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Delisha

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