Alishia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alishia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alishia: Recorded since 1996, it reached #587 in 2005, and it was last ranked in 2016.

2registrars recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#587highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2016

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#946
1998	#869
1999	#900
2000	#804
2001	#1359
2002	#1104
2003	#1083
2004	#1383
2005	#1500
2006	#1435
2007	#1443
2008	#1718
2009	#3422
2010	#3156
2011	#3549
2012	#4838
2016	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 18 of the 21 years from 1996 to 2016.

In 2008: #862 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1718 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2016 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1112 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2008
Highest recorded position: #587 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2016
Most recently recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016.
England and Wales · Girls

Alishia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 18 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 277 births with the name.

Alishia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alishia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1112 (1996)	#804 (2000)	#5785 (2016)	18 of 21	277 (1996–2016)	28 (2000)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#587 (2005)	#587 (2005)	#862 (2008)	2 of 4	7 (2005–2008)	4 (2005)

Alishia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alishia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	88	4 of 10	22
2000sbusiest	169	10 of 10	17
2010s	20	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alishia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #587 in Republic of Ireland in 2005.

Alishia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#946	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2016, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #587, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 9 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Alisha · #57, 39y
Alishba · #300, 28y
Alisia · #663, 29y
Alison · #18, 74y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Debora · #587, 22y
Jing · #587, 18y
Lucja · #587, 18y
Elyza · #588, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ayisha · #587, 29y
Azariah · #586, 24y
Elyza · #588, 20y
Faizaan · #586, 29y

Alishia was ranked #587 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alishia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alishia without appearing here.

Alishia moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1112 and #848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #946 and #1015.

Moved ahead of Alishia

Meabh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4838 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2233.
Jesse Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3156 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #3549 and #1489.
Pauline Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3549 and #4764 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4838 and #2969.
Jude Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1718 and #2150 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #3422 and #1596.

Moved the opposite way to Alishia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 while Ada went from #2683 to #164.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 while Alma went from #2096 to #529.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 while Alyssa went from #783 to #198.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 while Amalie went from #2096 to #703.

Moved the same way as Alishia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 and Abigail from #21 to #58.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 and Aimee from #70 to #400.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 and Aisling from #440 to #1416.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Alishia went from #1112 to #5785 and Alex from #161 to #1416.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #587 in Republic of Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Alishia

Alishia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alishia across 2 official records

Alishia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Alishia appears in

Popularity data

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Alishia at a glance

Alishia across 2 official records

Alishia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Alishia

Alishia and the names beside it

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