Lissa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Short form of Melissa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɪsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 45K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Melissa. See also pLyssa. Livia ° In modern use often taken as a short form of Olivia, but originally a distinct name, a feminine form of the Roman family name Livius. This is of uncertain derivation, perhaps connected with lividus ‘bluish’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lissa, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lissa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Lissa | 7 |
| US United States | 4,260 | 1 in 78K | 4.2K | Lissa | 341 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 3 | Lissa | 110 |
| CA Canada | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | Lissa | 117 |
| BR Brazil | 891 | 1 in 238K | 891 | — | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 3 | Lissa | 98 |
| BE Belgium | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 5 | Lissa | 34 |
| DK Denmark | 209 | 1 in 28K | 209 | Lissa | 32 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Lissa | 47 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Lissa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: short form of MELISSA . See also LYSSA .
as a word
In ang, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of liss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of lisser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Vis (an island of Croatia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, to wash with lye
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)
- Lissa Hunterb. 1945USAmerican artist (born 1945)
- Lissa Evansb. 1950British writer and television director/producer
- Lissab. 1952Danish singer
- Lissa Martinezb. 1954USAmerican ocean engineer
- Lissa Rankinb. 1969USPhysician, orator and author
- Lissa Verab. 1982ARArgentine singer-actor
- Lissa Van Brandeb. 1990BEBelgian athletics competitor
- Lissa Labicheb. 1993SCSeychellois athlete
- Lissa LauriaUSAmerican actress and musician
- Lissa Neptunoactress
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)
Attested in 60 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,405 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 891 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 887 | #8,948 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 755 | #11,021 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 209 | #981 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 82 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #4,405 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2021 | 5 | #1,392 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1991 | 3 | #634 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1966 | 3 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Lissa?
- In the etymology graph, Melissa, Melinda and Melisa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lissa?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪsə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lissa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Short form of Melissa.
- Where does the name Lissa come from?
- Short form of Melissa. See also pLyssa. Livia ° In modern use often taken as a short form of Olivia, but originally a distinct name, a feminine form of the Roman family name Livius. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Lissa a male or female name?
- Lissa 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.
- In which country does Lissa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Lissa in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lissa.
- Where is Lissa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lissa is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lissa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,260 people named Lissa in 2020, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lissa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lissaThe 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, “Lissa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.