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 [ syll. a-lis-ha, al-i-sha ] The girl name Alisha is pronounced as AELIH-SHah KEY. Alisha is largely used in the English language and its origin is Germanic. Alisha is an English variant of the name Alicia (English, Latinized, Spanish, and Scandinavian). Alisha is also an English variant of the name Alice (Czech, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese). Alisha is a rather popular baby girl name. The name's popularity rose from the 1960s up to the 1980s; before that, it was of very light use only. At the modest height of its usage in 1987, 0.128% of baby girls were given the name Alisha. It had a ranking of #118 then. The baby name has seen a loss in popularity since then. In 2008, its usage was 0.023% and its ranking #642. Within the family of girl names directly linked to Alisha, Alicia (English, Latinized, Spanish, and Scandinavian) was the most widely used. In 2008, it was more frequently used than Alisha by 4 times. Baby names that sound like Alisha include Alaisa (English), Alaqua, Alaska (English), Alecia (English), Aleeza (English and Hebrew), Aleka (Greek and Spanish), Alekko (Slavic), Aleksey (Russian and Slavic), Aleksi (Slavic), Alesha (Russian and English), Aleshia (English), Aleska (Polish), Alessa (Italian), Aletia (Hawaiian), Alexa (English, German, Hungarian, and Spanish), Alexi (English), Alexie (English and German), Alexiou (Greek), Alexis (English, German, and Spanish), and Alica (Czech, Slavic, and English). KEY: approx pronunciation for Alisha: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
