Given name
Felisha
“one who is lucky and successful”
Felisha is a variant of Felicia. In Latin use, Felicia carries the interpretation “one who is lucky and successful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Felisha is a variant of Felicia. In Latin use, Felicia carries the interpretation “one who is lucky and successful.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Felisha is a form of Felicia. Felicia comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Felisha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,903
- 0 boys · 5,903 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 291 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 291 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,843 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Felisha’s family of names
Felisha has a related form in Felicia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Felisha
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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