She might be black, white, LatinX, Jewish, or literally anything else. He
name pops up and her ethnicity is a mystery. You won’t know until she walks in the
door. Also, her mother probably wanted to name her something unique and different so she added an ‘I’ to Elisha and now everyone calls he E-le-she-uh.
Rarely (but can be) used as a male name but girls
will still say this name is gender non specific.
“Elishia, the girl from
upstairs in apartment 3? Is she the white girl with
curly blonde hair, or the black girl with
locs”
“Ummmmmm … could be either”