Alisa
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Of The Nobility.
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Alisa
Alisa is widely understood as a graceful variant of names in the Alice and Alyssa family, carried into Spanish and broader European usage with the gentle gloss of "of the nobility." That aristocratic sense traces back through the old Germanic element adal, meaning "noble," which also underlies Alice, Adelaide, and a wide cluster of high-born medieval names. The streamlined spelling has also long been popular across Eastern Europe and Russia, where it reads as both familiar and softly exotic, giving the name a quiet international reach. In its modern English-language form, Alisa feels airy and contemporary, a name whose run of open vowels gives it a light, melodic quality on the tongue.
Alisa first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000, where it opened at its best national rank of #611. It held a place in the top-1000 through 2017, accumulating a total of 4,628 births across those years. Its later appearances were modest but persistent, sitting at #943 in 2014 and slipping to #990 in 2017 before it eased below the threshold. That long, gently fading presence marks it as a name that never dominated but kept a steady foothold for nearly two decades.
The name's appeal lies in its slim, easy elegance and its kinship to more familiar spellings. Recorded variants include Alise, Alissa, Aliza, and Alyssa, giving parents a small spectrum that ranges from the streamlined Alise to the much more popular Alyssa, so a child named Alisa can lean toward either the rare or the recognizable.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Alisa
US Popularity History (2000–2017)
Annual US births named Alisa by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 415 girls named Alisa (girl rank #611 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2017, ranked #990 for girls (262 US births). That's 379 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Alisa Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Alisa the strongest states are Washington, New Jersey, California.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington | #697 | 59 |
| 2 | New Jersey | #730 | 60 |
| 3 | California | #764 | 373 |
| 4 | Florida | #772 | 199 |
| 5 | Massachusetts | #792 | 34 |
| 6 | New York | #802 | 148 |
| 7 | Virginia | #875 | 47 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | #960 | 27 |
| 9 | Illinois | #1,014 | 30 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois | #1,014 | 30 |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | #960 | 27 |
| 3 | Virginia | #875 | 47 |
| 4 | New York | #802 | 148 |
| 5 | Massachusetts | #792 | 34 |
| 6 | Florida | #772 | 199 |
| 7 | California | #764 | 373 |
| 8 | New Jersey | #730 | 60 |
| 9 | Washington | #697 | 59 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Alisa in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Alisa to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Alisa against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).