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How popular is “Alisha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alisha” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alisha” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alisha” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alisha” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alisha” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alisha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alisha” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1956 13 0.000003153 13 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 21 0.000005051 21 100%
1960 60 0.000014445 60 100%
1961 50 0.000012071 50 100%
1962 73 0.00001809 73 100%
1963 96 0.000024253 96 100%
1964 120 0.000030867 120 100%
1965 157 0.000043305 157 100%
1966 137 0.000039417 137 100%
1967 169 0.000049781 169 100%
1968 239 0.000070743 239 100%
1969 372 0.00010704 372 100%
1970 420 0.000116456 420 100%
1971 528 0.00015383 528 100%
1972 560 0.000178174 560 100%
1973 596 0.000197555 590 6 98%
1974 682 0.000224342 682 100%
1975 802 0.000265616 791 11 97%
1976 932 0.000307155 932 100%
1977 1324 0.000416812 1317 7 99%
1978 1384 0.000436061 1377 7 99%
1979 1728 0.000519387 1721 7 99%
1980 1864 0.000541152 1854 10 99%
1981 2002 0.000578717 1997 5 100%
1982 2015 0.000574408 2015 100%
1983 2048 0.000591337 2048 100%
1984 2306 0.000660981 2293 13 99%
1985 2216 0.000620883 2211 5 100%
1986 2243 0.000630574 2236 7 99%
1987 2400 0.000665629 2392 8 99%
1988 2276 0.00061596 2268 8 99%
1989 2457 0.000639104 2437 20 98%
1990 2342 0.00059254 2342 100%
1991 2041 0.000523969 2041 100%
1992 1860 0.000484214 1855 5 99%
1993 1729 0.000458587 1722 7 99%
1994 1497 0.000402673 1497 100%
1995 1279 0.000349248 1279 100%
1996 1163 0.000318875 1163 100%
1997 990 0.000273047 990 100%
1998 857 0.000232994 857 100%
1999 765 0.0002071 765 100%
2000 715 0.000189158 715 100%
2001 684 0.000182722 684 100%
2002 711 0.000190194 711 100%
2003 685 0.000180153 685 100%
2004 690 0.000180585 685 5 99%
2005 625 0.000162555 625 100%
2006 500 0.000126384 500 100%
2007 554 0.00013858 554 100%
2008 476 0.000121099 476 100%
2009 375 0.000098163 375 100%
2010 352 0.000095245 352 100%
2011 360 0.00009842 360 100%
2012 306 0.000083667 306 100%
2013 297 0.000081467 297 100%
2014 305 0.000082291 305 100%
2015 298 0.000080521 298 100%
2016 269 0.000073323 269 100%
2017 313 0.000087523 313 100%
2018 276 0.000078501 276 100%
2019 229 0.000065976 229 100%
2020 223 0.000066755 223 100%
2021 187 0.000055196 187 100%
2022 223 0.000065915 223 100%
2023 192 0.000057985 192 100%
2024 212 0.000063692 212 100%

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