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Alisha vs Alizee

American parents have registered 57,127 Alishas since 1880, against 567 Alizees. Alisha is still ahead, with 183 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alisha against Alizee, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alisha Alizee

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 2019, when Alisha had 229 and Alizee had 42.

Side by side

  Alisha Alizee
Total US births 57,127567
Most in one year 2,45742
Babies in 2025 18324
Estimated living today 55,000560
Median age today 3711
Peak year 19892019
Best rank 123rd girls3,611th girls
Rank in 2025 1,229th5,238th
First recorded 19481997
Girls / boys 56,996 / 131567 / 0

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 Alizees are over 11. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Alisha Alizee
England and Wales 14,96630
France 48014,390 Alizée
Belgium 1281,320 Alizée
Switzerland 1,052287 Alizée

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alisha and Alizee.