MEANING & HISTORY
What does Alisha mean?
Alisha is a variant of Alicia. Alicia is the Latinized form of Alice, which passed through Old French shortenings of Germanic Adalheidis.
The distant compound concerns noble kind, while Alisha’s immediate formation is a later variant spelling. This accounts for its relationship to Alice without treating the modern sh as a separately meaningful syllable. Other same-sounding names can have different histories, so the Alicia route is the specific account documented here.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
A modern spelling variant of Alicia.
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Wiktionary: Alisha (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
A Latinization of Alice, which is in turn from Old French Adelais, Germanic Adalheid.
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Wiktionary: Alisha (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Alisha
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Alisha del Campo
association football player
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Alisha del Campo
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Alisha in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Alisha
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Alicia♀Noble kind; form of Alice
- Alina♀Short form of Adelina, Albina, or other -alina names
- Alita·Name compared with Alethea or shortened from Adelita
- Alyssa♀Variant of Alicia, with an alyssum flower association
- Ayesha♀Living, alive
- Tisha♀Short form of Letitia; joy
- Trisha♀Short form of Patricia
- Aleah♀Variant of Aaliyah; high or exalted
What rhymes with Alisha?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Alisha further
Follow the sources
- Wikidata given-name item Q2647182 — Alisha (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Alisha del Campo (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q2647182 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Alisha (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Alisha (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — Alisha (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Alicia (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Alice (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.