Alicen vs Alisha
American parents have registered 57,127 Alishas since 1880, against 1,169 Alicens. Alisha is still ahead, with 183 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Alicen Alisha
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Alisha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2016, when Alicen had 30 and Alisha had 269.
Side by side
| Alicen | Alisha | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,169 | 57,127 |
| Most in one year | 34 | 2,457 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | 183 |
| Estimated living today | 1,100 | 55,000 |
| Median age today | 24 | 37 |
| Peak year | 1993 | 1989 |
| Best rank | 3,290th girls | 123rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 11,932nd | 1,229th |
| First recorded | 1965 | 1948 |
| Girls / boys | 1,169 / 0 | 56,996 / 131 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Alishas alive today are over 37; half the Alicens are over 24. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Alicen California (4.9×)
- Alisha Utah (2.2×), Oregon (1.8×), Washington (1.6×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alicen and Alisha.