Elissa

given name · English · Latin script

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

Elissa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Dido, queen of Carthage.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly1 in 654◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.1K
  • CLChile1 in 1.2K

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

≈319K ●

across 11 countries

#700 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
386 ●

1.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 290 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

ElisaLatin · Spanish●1.5M records
אליזהHebrew · Hebrew●5.2K records
ᲔლიზაGeorgian · Georgian●3.9K records
ΕλιζαGreek · Greek●303 records
엘리사Hangul · Korean●65 records
เอลิสสาThai · Thai●6 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elisa in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 12 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●

Dido, queen of Carthage.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

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

Where Elissa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#234612,045396K rec.—179Elisa111
MX Mexico#209234,873189K rec.—570Elisa202
PE Peru#279118,05798K rec.——Elisa70
BR Brazil#272110,90267K rec.1 in 1.9K111KElisa180
PH Philippines#23186,71973K rec.——Elisa77
VE Venezuela#30285,63950K rec.——Elisa68
IT Italy#10777,39373K rec.—850Elisa209
CL Chile#20476,6295K rec.—207Elisa114
FR France—55,930△68 rec.1 in 1.2K56K—4
US United States#92352,069249K rec.1 in 6.4K52KElissa386
ES Spain#17934,77861K rec.1 in 1.4K35KElisa179
PL Poland—29,641△29 rec.1 in 1.3K30K—3

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

Languages●

  • English137K67%
  • Portuguese17K8%
  • Spanish11K5%
  • French10K5%
  • 8.5K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English136,56367%
Portuguese16,7408%
Spanish10,5495%
French9,9965%
8,4514%

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◐

Elissa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name31K records spelled Elissa11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Élissa, Elíssa, Ëlïssä, Elïssä, Elisśa

  • French given name11K records spelled Elissa6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Élissa, Elîssâ, Èlissa, Èlïssâ

  • a separate given name9.2K records spelled Elissa2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Élissa

  • Czech given name928 records spelled Elissa4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written El-Issa

  • Italian given name488 records spelled Elissa3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Élissa, Êlissā

  • Russian given name291 records spelled Elissa12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Элисса, Елісса, Elyssa, Елисса, Ёлисса

46 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●

Elissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, synonym of Dīdō (“legendary foundress and queen of Carthage”)

    as a wordkaikki.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●

0200400600192019401960198020002020408 · 1979

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Elissa in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19146
19157
191614
19176
191813
192011
19217
19238
19246
19285
19307
193114
193229
193354
193450
193561
193644
193737
193840
193942
194035
194142
194241
194363
194451
194555
194673
194788
1948109
1949119
195086
1951113
1952172
1953167
1954166
1955144
1956109
195794
1958110
1959122
1960105
1961119
1962112
1963165
1964131
1965103
1966115
1967155
1968170
1969177
1970258
1971215
1972201
1973226
1974175
1975216
1976216
1977271
1978279
1979408
1980357
1981352
1982364
1983348
1984315
1985302
1986340
1987302
1988258
1989339
1990279
1991300
1992292
1993272
1994247
1995290
1996269
1997300
1998311
1999305
2000290
2001302
2002299
2003284
2004279
2005274
2006248
2007224
2008247
2009206
2010219
2011224
2012298
2013235
2014242
2015169
2016166
2017166
2018183
2019213
2020164
2021164
2022160
2023150
2024140
2025108

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 106 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Elissa Rhaïs, b. 1876Elissa Landi, b. 1904Elissa L. Newport, b. 1947Elissa Silverman, b. 1973Elissa Knight, b. 1975Elissa Down, b. 1975Elissa Steamer, b. 1975Elissa Slotkin, b. 1976Elissa Alarie, b. 1986Elissa Downie, b. 1999

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 68 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Elissa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,874
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.6K#782
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,119
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—810#10,519
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—458#2,947
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020301—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—253#3,043
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—236#3,251
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—221—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020191—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—163#6,111

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 · 516 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elissa?
We estimate roughly 319 thousand people bear Elissa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Elissa have the most bearers?
Elissa is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled elisa.
Where is Elissa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elissa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 290 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Elissa compared with other names?
In Argentina, Elissa is the 234th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Elissa a male or female name?
Elissa 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 Elissa mean?
Recorded meaning: Dido, queen of Carthage.
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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, “Elissa” — the 234th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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