Lisa was originally a short form of Elizabeth, meaning ‘My God is abudance’ or ‘My God is an oath’. It is derived from the Hebrew Elischeva.
Lisa is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lisa 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, Lisa ranks 788. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Lisa. In total, there are currently 959,343 people – children, adults and seniors – named Lisa living in the United States, which is approximately 0.29 % of the entire population.
The Mona Lisa
»The Mona Lisa« is the name of a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is considered one of the most important masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance and is the most famous, most visited, most described, most sung about and most parodied work of art in the world.
Lisa Valerie Kudrow (*1963)
The US actress gained international fame through her role as Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom »Friends« (1994-2004). Phoebe is considered one of the greatest television characters of all time. For this role, Kudrow was honoured with the Primetime Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and the American Comedy Award, among others.
Lisa Marie Simpson
The fictional character comes from the animated series »The Simpsons« which is running since 1989. Here, »Lisa« is the middle child of the Simpson family. Voiced by Yeardley Smith, she was invented by cartoonist Matt Groening.
Lisa Marie Presley (1968-2023)
Lisa Marie was the only child of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. Her musical career consists of the three studio albums »To Whom It May Concern« (2003), »Now What« (2005) and »Storm & Grace« (2012).She has also released a duet with her father using archive recordings.
Lisa Bonet (*1967)
Lilakoi Moon, who is professionally known as »Lisa Bonet« is a US-American actress. She is best known for her role as Denise Huxtable in the television series The Bill Cosby Show, for which she got nominated a for the Primetime Emmy Award. She also also played Denise Huxtable in the spin-off »College Fever«.
Lisa Nicole Lopes (1971-2002)
Better known by her stage name Left Eye, Lisa was a US-American singer, rapper and member of the R&B trio TLC. She is known to have been the creative force behind the group and won a total of four Grammy Awards through her work with TLC. Lopes died in a accident in 2002 when she lost control of her car.
When you hear the name Lisa, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Lisa? Are you also called Lisa? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is the name of what used to be two trading posts in the USA, one located in Nebraska, the other one located in North Dakota.
»Lisa« is the name of a river in Austria.
Various hurricanes (e.g. 1998, 2010) and cyclones (1966, 1981) were given the name »Lisa«.
is one of the 15 districts of the city of Havana in Cuba.
»Lisa« is the name of a whole series of places around the world, including Romania, Serbia, Nigeria and the USA.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Lisa reached its highest rank ever in the year 1969 at #1. In other words: 45,176 newborn girls were named Lisa that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Lisa is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Lisa will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lisa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Lisa ranked 840 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 289 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Lisa will remain a universally popular name.
Regardless of where you live in the US, chances are you know someone called Lisa. Because: There are women and girls named Lisa in every state in the USA. If this does not sound particularly spectacular to you, you should know that of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Lisa is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 10 of the most popular female first names, for example in Hawaii, where Lisa ranks on place 7, making it one of the most common female first names in the entire state. The greatest chance of meeting Lisa, however, is in Delaware, where one in 101 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 161, women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 229 women and girls for their name before you once get Lisa as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lisa is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lisa 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lisa, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lisa
Lisa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
S
A
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.
L
I
S
A
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. Lisa sounds like this:
