| [ 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 a variant of the name Adelaide (English and Italian). See also the related form, Alice (English and German). 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 2007, its usage was 0.026% and its ranking #552, but it was nonetheless the 2nd most popular after Alice (English and German), within all girl names in its family. In 2007, it was more frequently used than Alisha by 71% . Baby names that sound like Alisha include Alecia (English), Alesha (English), Alessa (Italian), Aletia (Hawaiian), Alexa (English and German), Alexi (English), Alexie (English), Alexis (English), Alicia (English, Latinized, and Spanish), Alisa (German), Alissa (English), Aljexi (English), Allyssa (English), Aloisie (Czech), Alycia (English), Alysa (English), Alysha (English), Alyssa (English), Elicia (English), Elisa (German), Eliza (English), Alessia (Italian), Alex (English), Alexea (English), Alexia (German and English), Alexus (English), Alexys (English), Alice (English and German), Alix (English), Aloise (Spanish), Aloisia (English and German), Alojzia (Slavic), Alojzija (Slavic), Aloysia (German), Alysia (English), Elise (German), Elysia (English), Olesja (Russian, Slavic, and Ukrainian), Uilleag (Irish), and Alke (German). 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)"
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