Liisu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, a short form of Eliisabet
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/liisu/(machine-generated) Finnish · model-generated
Liisu is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Estonia.
- EEEstonia
- FIFinland
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name, a short form of Eliisabet
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Liisu Poijärvib. 1886FIFinnish rebel who used the nickname Old Nun (1886-1950)
- Liisu Arrob. 1981EEEstonian ceramicist (born 1981)
- Liisu Lassb. 1988EEEstonian journalist (born 1988)
- Liisu Mittb. 1997EEEstonian rower (born 1997)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 153 | #2,152 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 116 | #677 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 50 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #14,762 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #49,498 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 does the name Liisu mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, a short form of Eliisabet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Liisu?
- 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 Eliisabet.
- How do you pronounce Liisu?
- In Finnish /liisu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Liisu a male or female name?
- Liisu is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV) and Estonia (Statistics Estonia).
- In which country does Liisu have the most bearers?
- Liisu is most frequently recorded in Estonia.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liisuThe 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, “Liisu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.