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Around the world, الیسا (Elissa , الیسا) is a common female first name. The forename الیسا is habitual in Lebanon, where it is quite a common feminine name, Australia, where it is quite a rare girly name, and the United States. Very seldom, الیسا is the last name as well as the forename.
الیسا is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Elissa , the one of the ten fictional narrators in Boccaccio's Decameron, The Decameron and Elissa , the operatic character in the opera The Visitors by Carlos Chávez; also Venus Procuress, and Lilith.