Given name
Kalisha
“a beautiful and caring woman”
Kalisha is used as a given name. One American interpretation is “a beautiful and caring woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “a beautiful and caring woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kalisha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,298
- 0 boys · 1,298 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 83 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,049 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,049 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 83 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,031 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.
Kalisha’s family of names
Kalisha has a related form in Kaleisha. Kalisha has a related form in Kaleasha. Kalisha has a related form in Kaleashah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Kaleeshavariant
- Kaleishavariant
- Kalieshavariant
- Kallishalikely variant
- Kalisshalikely variant
- Kaleashahvariant
- Kaleashavariant
- Kaleeshahvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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