Larisa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Larisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name. In Russian, recorded as "sea bird, seagull".
- LVLatvia1 in 288(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 137as Лариса
- RURussia≈1 in 193as Лариса
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 Larisa 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #110 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 423 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
≈730,000 named Лариса, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Евгеньевна in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, CN China, Лариса in UA Ukraine and Larissa in BR Brazil.
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)
"sea bird, seagull."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Larisa is read(measured from records)
Larisa is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Russian36%
"sea bird, seagull."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English25%
A transliteration of the Russian female given name Лари́са (Larísa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Russian; cheerful, light-hearted
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- Spanish8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Larisa in Spanish.
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)
Larisa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #46 | ≈730,000 est. | ≈1 in 193 | #29 | Евгеньевна | 198 |
| BR Brazil | #75 | 436,347as Larissa | 1 in 485 | 436K | Larissa | 214 |
| UA Ukraine | #42 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 137 | — | Лариса | 96 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #55 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 523 | 1.3K | Евгеньевна | 49 |
| CN China | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Евгеньевна | 20 |
| MD Moldova | #58 | 21,692 | 1 in 155 | 22K | Larisa | 39 |
| LV Latvia | #164 | 6,541 | 1 in 288 | 6.5K | Larisa | 48 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Larisa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Grieķijā ("Λάρισα"), Tesālijas perifērijas administratīvais centrs, Pinjas krastos, 162600 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.), VI gs. p. m. ē. - sengrieķu lielākā pilsēta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Larisa Reisnerb. 1895PLRussian writer, editor (1895–1926)
- Larisa Bogorazb. 1929RUSoviet dissident (1929–2004)
- Larisa Tarkovskayab. 1933RUassistant director
- Larisa Latyninab. 1934RUSoviet-Russian artistic gymnast and ballet dancer (born 1934)
- Larisa Luppianb. 1953RURussian actress (born 1953)
- Larisa Dolinab. 1955RURussian singer and actor
- Larisa Lazutinab. 1965RUcross-country skier
- Larisa Savchenko-Neilandb. 1966LVLatvian tennis player (born 1966)
- Larisa Oleynikb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Larisa Cerićb. 1991BAjudoka from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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 72 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 25K | #1,198 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 22K | #56 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 17K | #1,163 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6.5K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6.5K | #65 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 898 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #1,163 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 are other forms of the name Larisa?
- In the etymology graph, Larissa and Larysa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Larisa mean, and where does it come from?
- "sea bird, seagull." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- In which country does Larisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 734 thousand people named Лариса in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Larisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Larisa is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 155 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Larisa a male or female name?
- Larisa 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 Larisa?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 21,692 people named Larisa, about 1 in 155 residents.
- How common is Larisa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Larisa is the 46th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Larisa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/larisaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Larisa” — the 46th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.