Elisa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Elissa in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 4 more, Eliza in GE Georgia, IN India, KE Kenya and 2 more and אליזה in IL Israel.

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●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Elisa is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name773K records spelled Elisa29 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Italy, Netherlands

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written E'Lisa, El-Isa, Élisa, Elişa, Elísa

• Finnish given name95K records spelled Elisa4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Italy, Philippines

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Élisa

• a separate given name59K records spelled Elisa6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Élisa, Elíša, Elísa, Eliša, Elīsa

• Indonesian given name27K records spelled Elisa5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Elisa, Élisa, Elisa'

• Polish given name15K records spelled Elisa124 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, United States

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Uzbek

  Also written Eliza, Элиза, Элиса, Еліза, Elise

• Swahili given name9.0K records spelled Elisa4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, South Africa, Italy

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written El-Isa, Ëliśa

• Albanian given name5.5K records spelled Elisa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, Belgium

  Also written Élisa

82 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●

Elisa 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 French, Forme courte d’Élisabeth; hébreu Elisheva « Dieu est serment ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In Spanish, Apócope de Elisabeth.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In German, ) Elise: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Dios ayudó

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Italian, a female given name, short for Elisabetta

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Elisa Bonaparteb. 1777FRFrench princess (1777-1820)
• Elisa Montésb. 1934ESSpanish actress (1934–2024)
• Elisa Carriób. 1956ARArgentine politician and lawyer
• Elisa Gabriellib. 1959USAmerican actress
• Elisa Donovanb. 1971USAmerican actress
• Elisa Tovatib. 1976FRFrench actress and singer
• Elisab. 1977ITItalian singer-songwriter (born 1977)
• Elisa Sednaouib. 1987FRFrench-Italian-Egyptian actress and model
• Elisa Bartolib. 1991ITItalian association football player
• Elisa Schlottb. 1994DEGerman actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,594 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elisa?

We estimate roughly 319 thousand people bear Elisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Elisa have the most bearers?

Elisa is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled elisa.

Where is Elisa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elisa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 290 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Elisa compared with other names?

In Argentina, Elisa is the 234th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Elisa a male or female name?

Elisa 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 Elisa mean?

Recorded meaning: Initialism of evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a proposed European Space Agency mission designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves.