Entry № 441 · Arabic origin

Alisha Alisha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LEE-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Protected by God"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "protected by god".

Alisha is from the Arabic ʿAlīshā.

Protected by God — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

عليشا
Transliteration
ʿAlīshā
Pronunciation
/ əˈliː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alisha stands.

Alisha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alishas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Al-ʿAlī / Alisha Chinai Made in India
Arabic noble protected + Al-ʿAlī The High 99 Names of God + Quranic divine elevation + Alisha Chinai Made in India 1995 + Indian pop music
Islamic + Indian pop

Names connected to Alisha.

The number behind Alisha.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alisha reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.