Larisha
Meaning of Larisha
Larisha, pronounced /ləˈriʃə/, is a feminine given name whose modern usage in the United States can be traced to the early 1970s and whose etymological roots are frequently interpreted as an innovative conflation of the classical Greek Larissa—etymologically linked to a fortress or citadel—and the Latin-derived Alicia—bearing connotations of nobility—thus reflecting a broader Anglo-American propensity for adapting established names through phonetic variation and morphological elaboration. Social Security Administration data reveal that from its initial recording in 1973, with five occurrences and a rank of 740, through its apex in the late 1980s, when twenty-six newborns were registered under the name and it achieved a rank of 782 in 1987, Larisha maintained a modest but discernible presence in the national onomastic landscape before settling back into the upper eight hundreds by the early 2000s. In scholarly analyses of late twentieth-century naming conventions, Larisha is often cited as a paradigmatic example of the era’s inclination toward names that juxtapose phonological familiarity with inventive suffixation, thereby signaling both individual uniqueness and alignment with established linguistic patterns.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as luh-REE-shuh (/ləˈriʃə/)
U.S. Popularity Chart
