first name
ELISHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 21,425 people named Elisha, 48.4% reported their origin as White, 26.7% as Black and 12.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 56.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Elisha peaked in 1980, when 736 babies got the name.
At least 30,034 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Elisha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #637. The largest share of babies named Elisha, 27.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Elisha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Elisha has been most common in Florida (2×), Georgia (1.9×), and Tennessee (1.6×), and least common in Connecticut (0.28×).
21,486 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Elisha
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Elisha, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Elisha ranks #61,890 of 156,621, with 350 people. See Elisha as a last name
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