Aliene vs Alisha
American parents have registered 57,127 Alishas since 1880, against 727 Alienes. Alisha is still ahead, with 183 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Aliene 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
Of the 117 years in which either name was published, Alisha for 75 years and Aliene for 42 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Aliene | Alisha | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 727 | 57,127 |
| Most in one year | 34 | 2,457 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 183 |
| Estimated living today | 120 | 55,000 |
| Median age today | 79 | 37 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1989 |
| Best rank | 1,374th girls | 123rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 1,229th |
| First recorded | 1903 | 1948 |
| Girls / boys | 727 / 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 Alienes alive today are over 79; half the Alishas are over 37. That is 42 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aliene and Alisha.