Alysha

Where Alysha comes from

The dictionaries list Alysha as a given name — a female given name, variant of Alicia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #4,494 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Alysha Clark born
    American basketball player
  3. 1990
    Peak, #410
    630 babies named Alysha — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Alysha Newman born
    Canadian pole vaulter
  5. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #776.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Alicia.
Namesakes
  • Alysha Newman · Canadian pole vaulter, born 1994
  • Alysha Clark · American basketball player, born 1987
  • Alysha Corrigan · Canadian rugby union and sevens player, born 1997
  • Alysha Koloi · Australian diver, born 2001
  • Alysha Brillinger · Canadian jazz singer, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.