Larisa

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Larisa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: "sea bird, seagull".

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 73◐
  • RURussia1 in 77
  • BYBelarus1 in 80

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

≈516K ●

across 12 countries

#144 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
368 ●

7.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 155 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

ЕвгеньевнаCyrillic · Russian●8.4M records
LarissaLatin · Portuguese●5.4M records
ᲚარისაGeorgian · Georgian●10K records
ΛαρισαGreek · Greek●206 records
ลาริสาThai · Thai●13 records
라리사Hangul · Korean●2 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Larissa in BR Brazil, US United States, DE Germany and 8 more, Евгеньевна in RU Russia, TR Türkiye, KG Kyrgyzstan and 5 more, Лариса in UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Larysa in PL Poland.

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●

"sea bird, seagull."

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Larisa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#4813,444,2964M rec.—#29Евгеньевна174
UA Ukraine#422,409,4292.4M rec.——Лариса81
BR Brazil#74436,347371K rec.1 in 485436KLarissa210
TR Türkiye#998230,7193.5K rec.——Евгеньевна17
KG Kyrgyzstan#11250,0158.8K rec.——Евгеньевна19
DE Germany#45838,34134K rec.—1Larissa195
BY Belarus#5632,7284.7K rec.—4Евгеньевна29
US United States—23,508206K rec.1 in 14K24KLarissa368
MD Moldova#4821,692△784 rec.1 in 15522KLarisa32
UZ Uzbekistan#32220,133490 rec.——Евгеньевна25
AU Australia#65319,02517K rec.—1Larissa179
PL Poland#30918,008△836 rec.1 in 2.1K18KLarysa63

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese231K42%
  • Russian79K14%
  • English73K13%
  • Spanish36K7%
  • Romanian28K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese230,78842%
Russian78,93114%
English73,17213%
Spanish36,1337%
Romanian28,2225%

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◐

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

  • Estonian given name9.5K records spelled Larisa13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Slovenia, United States

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian

    Also written Larissa, Larisza, Làrìssà, Láríssá, Láriszá

  • French given name6.4K records spelled Larisa3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Russia

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Larïsa

  • a separate given name4.6K records spelled Larisa2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Also written Lárisa

  • Armenian given name1.2K records spelled Larisa4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Armenia, Russia, Canada

    Also written Larissa, Larişa, Լարիսա

  • Hebrew given name162 records spelled Larisa6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Ukraine, Latvia, Russia

    Also written לריסה, לאריסה, Larissa, לעריסה, לריסא

  • Sinhala given name139 records spelled Larisa2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Also written Larişa

43 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●

Larisa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A transliteration of the Russian female given name Лари́са (Larísa)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Russian; cheerful, light-hearted

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Grieķijā ("Λάρισα"), Tesālijas perifērijas administratīvais centrs, Pinjas krastos, 162600 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.), VI gs. p. m. ē. - sengrieķu lielākā pilsēta

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

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    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●

0501001501960198020002020108 · 1993

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Larisa in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1951–2025
Yearrecords
19515
19556
195712
195813
195917
196020
196127
196211
196318
196416
196517
196628
196784
1968100
196989
197085
197164
197258
197365
197446
197538
197660
197770
197856
197963
198058
198177
198253
198369
198475
198563
198672
198771
198887
198980
199080
199179
199280
1993108
1994104
199588
199664
199773
199871
199967
200067
200147
200270
200351
200475
200554
200658
200759
200834
200935
201038
201134
201222
201327
201413
201514
201621
201719
201820
201918
202013
202115
202218
202316
202419
202514

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 71 years between 1951–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Larisa Reisner, b. 1895Larisa Bogoraz, b. 1929Larisa Tarkovskaya, b. 1933Larisa Latynina, b. 1934Larisa Luppian, b. 1953Larisa Dolina, b. 1955Larisa Lazutina, b. 1965Larisa Savchenko-Neiland, b. 1966Larisa Oleynik, b. 1981Larisa Cerić, b. 1991

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 71 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Larisa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—25K#1,198
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—22K#56
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202217K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—17K#1,163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.7K#2,503
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—6.5K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—6.5K#65
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.7K#288
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.6K#151
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.5K#2,115
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.4K#1,134
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.2K#464

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 · 764 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Larisa?
We estimate roughly 516 thousand people bear Larisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Larisa have the most bearers?
Larisa is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled евгеньевна.
How common is Larisa compared with other names?
In Russia, Larisa is the 48th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Larisa a male or female name?
Larisa 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 Larisa mean?
Recorded meaning: "sea bird, seagull."
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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, “Larisa” — the 48th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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