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The first name 
Elisa

Elisa is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Elisa – popular and common in the US

The name Elisa isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Elisa ranks 428. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Elisa. In the entire USA, approximately 40,830 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elisa. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Elisa

What does the name 
Elisa mean?

The name Elisa is originally a short form of Elisabeth, which means ‘My God is an oath’, and of Hebrew origin. Alternately, Elisa may also be derived from the Phoenician name Elissa meaning ‘God is fire’ or ‘God is a woman’.

Also known as Elissa is... Dido, the legendary founder and first queen of the city-state Carthage in 814 BC. Today, Dido is a national symbol of Tunisia, where the city was located.

There are quite a few famous people called Elisa

A Princess & Grand Duchess

Elisa Bonaparte (1777 - 1820)
The eldest sister of Napoleon Bonaparte was, after the establishment of the French Empire, Princess of Lucca and Piombino and Grand Duchess of Tuscany.

A detection method

ELISA
»Enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay« which is often abbreviated to ELISA, is a commonly used analytical biochemistry assay and a detection method with which antibodies can be determined in a sample.

An actress

Lisa Adaline Donovan (*1971)
Professionally known as »Elisa Donovan« the US-American became world-famous for her role as Amber in the cult teen movie »Clueless«.

Go on a journey to places 
with your name

When you hear the name Elisa, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Elisa? Are you also called Elisa? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...

Elisa...

is the name of a city in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina.

A stadium

Villa Elisa is the nickname of the Luis Alfonso Giagni Stadium. It is located in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay.

Elisa has 5 letters 
and begins with an E

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Elisa is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.

Other names with 
E, l, i, s and a

If you take all the letters in the name Elisa – E, l, i, s and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Elias or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Elisa

If your name is Elisa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Elisa

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elisa, you can simply say:

Elephant

Lion

Igloo

Sun

Apple

This is how the name Elisa is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Elisa in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Elisa

Elisa

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Elisa

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Elisa is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
L
I
S
A

Have you ever waved the name Elisa

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

E
L
I
S
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elisa sounds like this: