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Telisha
How to Pronounce Telisha
Pronounced tuh-LEE-shuh /tษหliห.สษ/High
Meaning: Telisha is a coined African American name of the later twentieth century, built from the fashionable Te-/La- prefix and the -isha ending shared by Alisha, Latisha and Keisha. It carries the graceful sound of that family rather than a documented ancient meaning.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. ยท SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880โpresent). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Telisha is not a translated word but a made name, and that is its real story: through the late nineteen-sixties and seventies Black American families coined a rich family of names on the -isha and -eisha endings, joining prefixes like Te-, La- and Ke-. Telisha sits squarely in that group. It first appears in the records in the late sixties, climbed to a modest peak in 1980, and had thinned to a rarity by the two-thousands.
The name never became common, but for a stretch of two decades it was a recognizable, pretty option a parent could pick knowing it rhymed with Alisha and Felisha without copying them. It reads today as a distinctly late-century coinage rather than a revival candidate, worn mostly by women now in their forties.
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What does the name Telisha mean?
Telisha is a coined American name in the Alisha and Latisha family; it carries that soft -isha sound rather than a documented ancient meaning.
How do you pronounce Telisha?
It's said tuh-LEE-shuh /tษหliห.สษ/ โ three syllables, stress in the middle.
Is Telisha a boy or girl name?
Telisha is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Telisha?
Telisha was an uncommon but recognizable choice that crested around the start of the eighties and has been rare since the two-thousands; it has not come back.