Elysha
Feminine · “God is salvation”
Elysha is given to both — 697 girls and 31 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Elysha makes two changes at once and both pull the name away from where it started. A y replaces the i, and an sh replaces the s — and together they move a Hebrew prophet's name into the neighborhood of Alisha and Elisa. The man behind it inherited a cloak from his teacher and a double share of what came with it.
How old is the name Elysha?
Elysha first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Elysha alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 700 people named Elysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elysha most popular?
Elysha peaked in 1989, reaching #2572 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 10,636 places below that high. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisha to Elysha
The story of Elysha
Elisha follows Elijah in the books of Kings and asks, when his teacher is taken up, for a double portion of his spirit; the cloak falling from the whirlwind is the sign that he has it. The stories that follow are strange and domestic — a widow's oil that will not run out, an axe head that floats — and they made him one of the more vividly remembered prophets. English Protestants took the name up for sons. In America it has crossed almost entirely to daughters, helped by spellings like this one that make it look like a member of the Alisha family instead.
Meaning
God is salvation
From the Hebrew Elisha, joining el, God, to a root meaning to save or deliver. It is the same statement as Isaiah's and Joshua's, made with the elements in a different order — which is how a small stock of Hebrew words produced a very large number of names.
How the name formed
- Elisha
- Eliseus
- Elysha
Related forms: Elisha · Eliseo · Elissaios · Alyasa
Pronouncing Elysha
ee-LEE-shuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The sh in this spelling is a real change from the Hebrew name, which has a plain s — so this version genuinely sounds different from Elisha, unlike most respellings.
Nicknames for Elysha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 198944 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2572reached in 1989
- Change vs 2024
- +20.0%6 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Elysha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Elisha in Hebrew — transliteration
- Eliseo in Spanish — related form
- Elissaios in Greek — transliteration
- Alyasa in Arabic — transliteration
Elyshas among us
people named Elysha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Elysha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elysha
- #13208
- Elysha on the 2025 chart
- #895
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elysha went to 6 girls in 2025, but Elisha is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 65, which makes it the 895th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,313 places above the chart.
- Elisha59
- Elysha6
About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Elysha itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Raymona test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elysha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Raymona climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Raymona's path sketches the road Elysha is walking now.
Elysha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Elysha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elysha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ellie is available and is among the most current short forms in American use.
- The prophet behind it is documented and his stories are unusually memorable.
- Three open syllables that sit well after almost any surname.
- It is recorded for boys as well as girls, which matches the Hebrew tradition.
- Elisha, Alisha, Alicia and Elisa all sit close by and will be written instead.
- The sh changes the sound, so this is not simply a respelling — relatives who know the biblical name may say it differently.
- Nearly every child given this spelling is a girl, though the name is a man's throughout the Hebrew Bible.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elyshas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Elysha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elysha?
- Elysha is one of 2 recorded spellings. Elisha is the more common one — 59 births in 2025 against 6 for Elysha.
- How popular is the name Elysha in 2025?
- Elysha ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elysha?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Elysha — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elysha with classmates?
- Elysha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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