Twisha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TWEE-shah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Twisha is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “brightness; radiance”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Twisha mean?
Sanskrit: from Sanskrit tvisha
“brightness; radiance”
Is Twisha a girl's or a boy's name?
Twisha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Twisha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Twisha, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Twisha of any year since it first appeared, in 2010.
Half of all the girls named Twisha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Twisha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 10 | #2,615 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
How popular is Twisha in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Twisha, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had fewer girls named Twisha than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Twisha in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Twisha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
Names like Twisha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Viha, Aadhya, Arya, Kridha, Krisha, Divisha, Anvika, Nishtha, Aarya, Dhyana, Navya
Names related to Twisha
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Shivansh
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Twisha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/twisha, updated 20 October 2026.