Liisa
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Liisa is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Liisa är ursprungligen en finsk smekform till → Elisabeth och även en finsk stavning av → Lisa.
- FIFinland1 in 94◐
- USUnited States1 in 478K
- SESweden1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈64K ●
- Sources
- 113 ●
- 1 in 94 ◐
across 7 countries
6.2K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin●
Liisa är ursprungligen en finsk smekform till → Elisabeth och även en finsk stavning av → Lisa.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #21 | 59,387△ | 3.4K rec. | 1 in 94 | 104K | Liisa | 83 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,330△ | 345 rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 3.3K | Liisa | 37 |
| US United States | — | 696 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 478K | 696 | Liisa | 113 |
| ES Spain | — | 293 | 61 rec. | — | — | Liisa | 19 |
| EE Estonia | — | 234 | 159 rec. | — | 1.7K | Liisa | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 149 | 106 rec. | — | — | Liisa | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | 131 | 97 rec. | — | 8 | Liisa | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 116 | 33 rec. | — | 22 | Liisa | 19 |
| CO Colombia | — | 67 | 54 rec. | — | — | Liisa | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 52 | 54 rec. | — | — | Liisa | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 46 | — | 1 in 128K | 46 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 41 | 34 rec. | — | 174 | Liisa | 14 |
Roughly 59K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 94). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish377K94%
- English9.8K2%
- Estonian4.8K1%
- Spanish1.1K1%
- German1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 376,972 | 94% |
| English | 9,816 | 2% |
| Estonian | 4,846 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,104 | 1% |
| German | 1,022 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Liisa 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 Estonian, a female given name, a short form of Eliisabet or Elisabeth
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 14 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 13 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 13 |
| 1961 | 15 |
| 1962 | 28 |
| 1963 | 25 |
| 1964 | 18 |
| 1965 | 12 |
| 1966 | 16 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 18 |
| 1969 | 18 |
| 1970 | 14 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1972 | 14 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 12 |
| 1979 | 14 |
| 1980 | 12 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1995 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1949–1995. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Liisa Kauppinenb. 1939FIFinnish lawyer and human rights activist
- Liisa Suihkonenb. 1943FIFinnish cross-country skier (1943–2025)
- Liisa Jaakonsaarib. 1945FIFinnish politician (born 1945)
- Liisa Hyssäläb. 1948FIFinnish dentist and politician
- Liisa Veijalainenb. 1951FIFinnish orienteer
- Liisa Pakostab. 1969EEEstonian politician (born 1969)
- Liisa Repo-Martellb. 1971CACanadian actor and artist
- Anna Kontulab. 1977FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Liisa Evastinab. 1980FIactress
- Liisa Merisalub. 2002EEEstonian association football player (born 2002)
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 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 104K | #15 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 59K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.3K | #777 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 1.7K | #99 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.7K | #86 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.2K | — |
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 · 93 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Liisa?
- We estimate roughly 64 thousand people bear Liisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Liisa have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 59 thousand people bear Liisa in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled liisa.
- Where is Liisa most common?
- Liisa is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 94 people carrying it.
- How common is Liisa compared with other names?
- In Finland, Liisa is the 21st most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Liisa a male or female name?
- Liisa 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 Liisa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Liisa är ursprungligen en finsk smekform till → Elisabeth och även en finsk stavning av → Lisa.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liisa” — the 21st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.