Elisa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Elisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name. In English, recorded as Initialism of evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a proposed European Space Agency mission designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 428(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.2K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.7K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elisa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈150,000 people, est.

#804 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
430 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 290 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ElisaLatin(measured from records)
אליזהHebrew(measured from records)
엘리사Hangul(measured from records)
ΕλίζαGreek(measured from records)
ელიზაGeorgian(measured from records)
เอลิสสาThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elissa in US United States and Eliza in LV Latvia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Initialism of evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a proposed European Space Agency mission designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Elisa is read(measured from records)

Elisa is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish47%

    Apócope de Elisabeth.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English19%

    Initialism of evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a proposed European Space Agency mission designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese8.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Elisa in Portuguese.

  • French7.8%

    Forme courte d’Élisabeth; hébreu Elisheva « Dieu est serment ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Elisa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Elisa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#73≈150,000 est.≈1 in 428850Elisa227
BR Brazil#232110,9021 in 1.9K111KElisa179
PH Philippines#395≈65,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Elisa77
US United States#96952,3481 in 6.4K52KElissa430
AR Argentina#216≈38,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K179Elisa117
PL Poland—29,641as Eliza1 in 1.3K30K—3
FI Finland—19,2411 in 29023KElisa28
LV Latvia—2,493as Elīza1 in 7552.5KEliza33

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Elisa is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written E'Lisa, Élisa, Elísa, El-Isa, Elişa

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, Italy

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Élisa

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Elísa, Élisa, Eliša, Elīsa, Elíša

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Elisa, Elisa', Élisa

  • Russian given name100 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, United States

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Polish

    Also written Элиза, Eliza, Еліза, Елиза, Elise

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, South Africa, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written El-Isa, Ëliśa

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

    Also written Élisa

82 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Elisa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ) Elise: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Dios ayudó

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Italian, a female given name, short for Elisabetta

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Elisa Bonaparte, b. 1777Elisa Montés, b. 1934Elisa Carrió, b. 1956Elisa Gabrielli, b. 1959Elisa Donovan, b. 1971Elisa Tovati, b. 1976Elisa, b. 1977Elisa Sednaoui, b. 1987Elisa Bartoli, b. 1991Elisa Schlott, b. 1994

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 126 sources across 68 countries.

Official registers attesting Elisa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022111K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—110K#296
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—55K#736
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202052K#867
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202035K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—23K#112
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—19K—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024850#46
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—766#542
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026766#542
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025674—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—573#296

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Elisa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 146 thousand people named Elisa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elisa.
Where is Elisa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elisa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 290 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Elisa mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a proposed European Space Agency mission designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Elisa?
In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Elisabetta.
Is Elisa a male or female name?
Elisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Elisa?
In Brazil, the national register counted 110,902 people named Elisa in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Elisa compared with other names?
In Italy, Elisa is the 73rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elisa” — the 73rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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