Felisha
Feminine · “lucky”
Felisha writes down what the standard spelling hides. In Felicia the letters ci are doing the work of an sh, which is regular English and completely opaque to anyone meeting the word cold. Replacing them with sh makes the sound explicit — the same trade that produces Mishell from Michelle and Porsha from Portia.
How old is the name Felisha?
Felisha first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Felisha alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 5,700 people named Felisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Felisha most popular?
Felisha peaked in 1988, reaching #675 nationally. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From felix to Felisha
The story of Felisha
English gives ci, ti and si the sh sound before a vowel — in nation, patience, precious, Felicia — and it is one of the least predictable rules the language has, because nothing on the page announces it. A reader who has not met the convention will produce fuh-LEE-see-uh, which is not wrong so much as unused. Felisha and Felecia solve the same problem in two different directions: one writes the consonant plainly and the other adjusts the vowel. Both are attempts at a spelling that behaves.
Meaning
lucky; fruitful
Latin felix meant fertile or fruitful in its oldest uses — applied to soil, trees and livestock — and the sense of being fortunate grew out of it, because in an agricultural society the two were the same thing. Felicia is the feminine of Felicius. The meaning is not disputed, and the older agricultural sense is the more interesting of the two. Neither spelling touches it.
How the name formed
- felix
- Felicia
- Felisha
Related forms: Felicia · Felisa · Felicja
Pronouncing Felisha
fuh-LEE-shuh
fuh-LEE-shuh, three syllables, stress in the middle. This spelling cannot be read any other way, which is its whole purpose — Felicia can be given four syllables by a careful reader and this version cannot.
Nicknames for Felisha
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
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 1989291 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #675reached in 1988
- Change vs 2019
- 0.0%6 in 2024, from 6
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.
Felisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Felicia in Italian — same name
- Felisa in Spanish — related form
- Felicja in Polish — same name
Felishas among us
people named Felisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Felisha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sh removes a genuine ambiguity that the standard spelling has never resolved.
- Lisha is a ready short form that the ci spelling makes much harder to see.
- The Latin behind it is documented and the older sense is worth explaining.
- Felicia is the standard spelling and this will be corrected toward it constantly.
- Felisha, Felecia and Falisha are all in use, so the name is dictated in full.
- It is closely tied to one American generation and dates a person fairly precisely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Felishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,700 people named Felisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Felisha in 2025?
- Felisha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Felisha with classmates?
- Felisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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