# Alisa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alisa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Finnish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 34,727 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 22 / 34,705 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,351, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 247 | 1,012 |
| 2012 | 261 | 972 |
| 2013 | 236 | 1,046 |
| 2014 | 286 | 944 |
| 2015 | 258 | 1,034 |
| 2016 | 259 | 1,022 |
| 2017 | 262 | 990 |
| 2018 | 248 | 1,039 |
| 2019 | 207 | 1,158 |
| 2020 | 186 | 1,227 |
| 2021 | 190 | 1,236 |
| 2022 | 171 | 1,362 |
| 2023 | 163 | 1,378 |
| 2024 | 153 | 1,441 |
| 2025 | 125 | 1,654 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | 4,058 |
| 1971 | 5 | 4,930 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,004 |
| 1979 | 7 | 4,861 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 59 | 665 |
| 2012 | 72 | 587 |
| 2013 | 52 | 750 |
| 2014 | 59 | 668 |
| 2015 | 79 | 549 |
| 2016 | 76 | 553 |
| 2017 | 65 | 637 |
| 2018 | 68 | 602 |
| 2019 | 70 | 574 |
| 2020 | 54 | 683 |
| 2021 | 69 | 567 |
| 2022 | 53 | 694 |
| 2023 | 62 | 608 |
| 2024 | 53 | 708 |
| 2025 | 48 | 763 |

## People named Alisa

- Alisa Camplin, Australian freestyle skier
- Alisa Weilerstein, American cellist
- Alisa Reyes, American actress
- Alisa Vainio, Finnish athlete
- Alisa Kovalenko, director and filmmaker
- Alisa Burras, American basketball player (born 1975)
- Alisa Melekhina, chess player
- Alice Orlowski, Female Nazi; concentration camp guard (1903–1976)
- Aliyah Boston, American basketball player (born 2001)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.