Laisha
Feminine
The La- of Laisha is not the La- of Lashawn. In Spanish-speaking naming the syllable is the actual definite article, a live word in the language the family speaks, which makes it a different thing from the free prefix of American coinage even when the letters are identical.
How old is the name Laisha?
Laisha first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Laisha alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 2,400 people named Laisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laisha most popular?
Laisha peaked in 2004, reaching #789 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 6,049 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Laisha
The same two letters can be doing quite different work in two naming systems. In African American naming the La- prefix arrived from Louisiana French surnames and detached long ago; it is a free element with no grammar behind it, and a speaker attaching it is not saying the. In Mexican and Central American naming, la is the ordinary Spanish definite article, used a hundred times a day, and a name beginning with it is heard as containing a word. That difference does not show on a page and does show in how the name is understood in the household. Laisha is Mexican-American in its distribution, and its best year in United States records is 2004.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
No settled etymology. The name may be built from the Spanish article la and a syllable, or from Aisha, the Arabic name of the Prophet's wife, meaning living or she who lives, with an added la. Hebrew ishah, a woman, is also offered. None is documented, and the name's Mexican-American record does not decide between them.
Pronouncing Laisha
lah-EE-shah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. English speakers usually say LAY-shuh with two, which collapses the middle vowel entirely.
Nicknames for Laisha
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 2004323 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #789reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −23.8%16 in 2025, from 21
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.
Laisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Laysha in Spanish — spelling variant
- Aisha in Arabic — related form
Laishas among us
people named Laisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Laisha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Laisha
- #6838
- Laisha on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Laisha went to 16 girls in 2025, but Laysha is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,903 places above the chart.
- Laisha16
- Laysha9
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Laisha 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 Andrew test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Laisha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Andrew climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Andrew's path sketches the road Laisha is walking now.
Laisha 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
Laisha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Laisha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three open syllables and no clusters, so it is easy to say.
- Isha is available as a short form with its own history.
- Reads correctly in Spanish, which most coinages do not.
- Laysha and Laisha both circulate and split the records.
- English speakers will collapse it from three syllables to two.
- The name has no documented meaning to pass on.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Laisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Laisha?
- Laisha is the most-used spelling in US records — 16 of the 25 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Laysha.
- How popular is the name Laisha in 2025?
- Laisha ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Laisha?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Laisha — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Laisha with classmates?
- Laisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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