Alisha is a phonetic spelling of Alicia, the Spanish and Latin form of Alice, which goes back to the Germanic Adalheidis and means "noble kind" or "of noble birth"; in India Alisha is also used as a Sanskrit name read as "protected by God". The spelling peaked in America in the 1980s alongside singer Alisha. Alisha ranked number 401 in 2000, dropped out of the top 1000 in 2019 and stands at 1229 in 2025.