Lisha

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Lisha by the numbers

Lisha was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 275 babies in 1960, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Lisha

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

  • LisaGod is my oath; short form of Elisabeth57 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Lissabee; a form of Melissa14 in the US (2017)
  • Laisha17 in the US (2017)
  • Leisha10 in the US (2017)
  • Lianato bind or wrap around; climbing vine150 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Lindapretty or beautiful404 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Lisha

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