Alisa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice.
- FIFinland1 in 611(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 8.6K
- CZCzechia1 in 586as Alice
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 Alisa 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #760 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 469 (measured from records)
- 1 in 611 (inferred from the name graph)
488,951 named Alice, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Алиса in RU Russia, FI Finland, CN China, Alysa in BR Brazil, Alicia in ES Spain and Alice in CZ Czechia.
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)
A female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alisa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 488,951as Alice | 1 in 433 | 489K | Alysa | 7 |
| US United States | #621 | 242,747as Alicia | 1 in 1.4K | 242K | Alisa | 469 |
| RU Russia | #108 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 805 | #53 | Алиса | 183 |
| CN China | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Алиса | 31 |
| ES Spain | — | 101,069as Alicia | 1 in 495 | 101K | Alicia | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 44,227as Alice | 1 in 231 | 44K | Alisa | 33 |
| CZ Czechia | #131 | 18,252as Alice | 1 in 586 | 18K | Alice | 107 |
| FI Finland | #241 | 9,116 | 1 in 611 | 13K | Алиса | 37 |
488,951 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling alice. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name 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)
Alisa 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.
In Swedish, Alisa är en bl.a. nederländsk sidoform till → Alice, använd i Sverige på 1800-talet. Alissa har sitt ursprung i flera språk (engelska, nederländska och ryska) som sidoform till → Alice.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., niederländische Neben form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
الساء God is salvation.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Turkish, 1. Asil soydan olan. 2. Güzel.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Latvian, sausgultne Austrālijā, Kvīnslendas štatā, lietus periodā Barkū labā krasta pieteka
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)
- Alice Liddellb. 1852GBnot in their usual nameEnglish woman, basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland" (1852–1934)
- Princess Alice of Battenbergb. 1885GBnot in their usual nameMember of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
- Ayn Randb. 1905USnot in their usual nameRussian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
- Alice Munrob. 1931CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1931–2024)
- Sylvia Earleb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican oceanographer
- Quentin Bryceb. 1942AUnot in their usual name25th Governor-General of Australia
- Alice Malsenior Walkerb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican author and activist (born 1944)
- Alice Waltonb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Anne, Princess Royalb. 1950GBnot in their usual namedaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Louise Windsorb. 2003GBnot in their usual namenoblewoman; daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
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 97 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 176 | #102,197 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 126 | #125,639 |
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 does the name Alisa mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Alisa?
- In the etymology graph, Alicia, Alice and Allison are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alisa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 489 thousand people named Alice, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Alisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alisa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 611 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- Is Alisa a male or female name?
- Alisa 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 Alisa?
- In Finland, the national register counted 9,116 people named Alisa, about 1 in 611 residents.
- How common is Alisa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Alisa is the 108th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alisa?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alisaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Alisa” — the 108th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.