Elissa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dido, queen of Carthage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elissa 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.
- ITItaly≈1 in 428as Elisa(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.2Kas Elisa
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.7Kas Elisa
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 Elissa 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)
- #804 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- 1 in 290 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Elisa, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Elisa
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elisa in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, IT Italy and 2 more 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)
Dido, queen of Carthage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elissa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #73 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 428 | 850 | Elisa | 227 |
| BR Brazil | #232 | 110,902as Elisa | 1 in 1.9K | 111K | Elisa | 179 |
| PH Philippines | #395 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Elisa | 77 |
| US United States | #969 | 52,348as Elisa | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Elissa | 430 |
| AR Argentina | #216 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 179 | Elisa | 117 |
| PL Poland | — | 29,641as Eliza | 1 in 1.3K | 30K | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 19,241as Elisa | 1 in 290 | 23K | Elisa | 28 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,493as Elīza | 1 in 755 | 2.5K | Eliza | 33 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Elissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, synonym of Dīdō (“legendary foundress and queen of Carthage”)
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)
- Elissa Rhaïsb. 1876FRAlgerian salon-holder
- Elissa Landib. 1904USItalian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s
- Elissa L. Newportb. 1947USAmerican psycholinguist
- Elissa Silvermanb. 1973USWashington, D.C. politician
- Elissa Knightb. 1975USAmerican actress
- Elissa Downb. 1975AUAustralian film director
- Elissa Steamerb. 1975USAmerican professional skateboarder
- Elissa Slotkinb. 1976USAmerican politician (born 1976)
- Elissa Alarieb. 1986CACanadian rugby union player
- Elissa Downieb. 1999GBBritish artistic gymnast
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 68 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,874 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,119 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 810 | #10,519 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 253 | #1,545 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 221 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 191 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 108 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 47 | #2,364 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 47 | #2,364 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #1,874 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #27,561 |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Elissa mean, and where does it come from?
- Dido, queen of Carthage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Elissa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 110,902 people named Elisa in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Elissa compared with other names?
- In Italy, Elissa is the 73rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- Is Elissa a male or female name?
- Elissa 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.
- What are other forms of the name Elissa?
- In the etymology graph, Lisa, Betty and Beth are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Elissa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 146 thousand people named Elisa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elissa most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Elissa itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 290 people named Elisa.
What do you want to know about Elissa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elissaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Elissa” — the 73rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.