Alisa

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alisa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. In Thailand it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 433◐
  • ESSpain1 in 495
  • CZCzechia1 in 586

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.2M ●

across 16 countries

#746 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
507 ●

2.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 231 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

AlyssaLatin · English●900K records
АлисаCyrillic · Russian●860K records
อรสาThai · Thai●26K records
ᲐლისაGeorgian · Georgian●2.5K records
ԱլիսաArmenian · Armenian●113 records
앨리사Hangul · Korean●1 records

20 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Alyssa in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 3 more, Алиса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more, Arissa in BR Brazil, MY Malaysia and Alicia in ES Spain, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Alisa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#108795,594338K rec.—#53Алиса169
BR Brazil—488,951△463 rec.1 in 433489KArissa52
US United States#278274,2371.5M rec.1 in 1.2K274KAlyssa507
FR France—208,595△148 rec.1 in 325209KAlysa36
TH Thailand#52207,08698K rec.—#543,307อรสา143
UA Ukraine#144117,512117K rec.—listedАліса60
ES Spain—101,069△3K rec.1 in 495101KAlicia50
AU Australia#29771,33747K rec.—328Alyssa206
CA Canada#22760,33629K rec.—52Alyssa190
TR Türkiye—55,6273.3K rec.——Алиса14
GB United Kingdom#46951,52743K rec.—896Alisha174
SE Sweden—44,227△870 rec.1 in 23144KAlisa41

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English355K54%
  • Finnish43K6%
  • 35K5%
  • Polish31K5%
  • Spanish24K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English355,47154%
Finnish43,0826%
34,8525%
Polish31,3665%
Spanish24,1704%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alisa is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name45K records spelled Alisa3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ališa

  • Spanish given name40K records spelled Alisa13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Älïsä, Alisá, Alișa, Àlisa, Alişa

  • a separate given name38K records spelled Alisa4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Alìsa, Älisa, Alīṣā

  • French given name9.1K records spelled Alisa3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ãlisa

  • Indonesian given name7.7K records spelled Alisa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Alisa, Alisa', Alişa

  • Azerbaijani given name7.6K records spelled Alisa11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Russia, United States

    Languages: Azerbaijani, Turkish, Turkmen

    Also written Алиса, Al-Isa, Alişa, Älisa

  • Swahili given name3.7K records spelled Alisa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, Canada

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Al-Isa, Alişa

  • Latvian given name3.1K records spelled Alisa7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, Lithuania, Russia

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Aļisa, Alīsa, Ališa, Aļiša, Alīša

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Alisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Alisa är en bl.a. nederländsk sidoform till → Alice, använd i Sverige på 1800-talet. Alissa har sitt ursprung i flera språk (engelska, nederländska och ryska) som sidoform till → Alice.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, weibl. Vom., niederländische Neben­ form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • ‎‫الساء‬ God is salvation.

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • In Turkish, 1. Asil soydan olan. 2. Güzel.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Latvian, sausgultne Austrālijā, Kvīnslendas štatā, lietus periodā Barkū labā krasta pieteka

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0255075100194019601980200083 · 1994

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Alisa in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1921–2015
Yearrecords
19213
19222
19231
19274
19281
19291
19302
19324
19332
19343
19357
19364
19377
19384
19394
19403
19418
19428
19435
19443
194513
19467
194715
19486
19495
19508
19517
195217
195311
19548
195526
195615
195721
195829
195921
196019
196117
196232
196315
196416
196523
196621
196729
196823
196937
197021
197122
197235
197315
197425
197519
197637
197734
197833
197923
198014
198125
198232
198331
198432
198547
198637
198754
198839
198947
199046
199163
199275
199378
199483
199582
199652
199752
199835
19993
20021
20086
20107
20112
20126
20131
20146
20152

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 83 years between 1921–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Alice Liddell, b. 1852Princess Alice of Battenberg, b. 1885Ayn Rand, b. 1905Alice Munro, b. 1931Sylvia Earle, b. 1935Quentin Bryce, b. 1942Alice Malsenior Walker, b. 1944Alice Walton, b. 1949Anne, Princess Royal, b. 1950Louise Windsor, b. 2003
  • Alice Liddellb. 1852GBnot in their usual nameEnglish woman, basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland" (1852–1934)
  • Princess Alice of Battenbergb. 1885GBnot in their usual nameMember of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
  • Ayn Randb. 1905USnot in their usual nameRussian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
  • Alice Munrob. 1931CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1931–2024)
  • Sylvia Earleb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican oceanographer
  • Quentin Bryceb. 1942AUnot in their usual name25th Governor-General of Australia
  • Alice Malsenior Walkerb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican author and activist (born 1944)
  • Alice Waltonb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  • Anne, Princess Royalb. 1950GBnot in their usual namedaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  • Louise Windsorb. 2003GBnot in their usual namenoblewoman; daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 95 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Alisa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202033K#1,187
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—11K#395
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—9.1K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—7.5K#217
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20267.5K#217
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—5.1K#167
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.5K#943
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—2.5K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—2.2K#246
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—2.2K—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2K#383
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.5K#2,178

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 973 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alisa?
We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Alisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Alisa have the most bearers?
Alisa is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled алиса.
Where is Alisa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alisa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 231 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Alisa compared with other names?
In Russia, Alisa is the 108th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Alisa a male or female name?
Alisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Alisa mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alisa” — the 108th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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