Alissa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 586as Alice(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 611as Alisa
- RURussia≈1 in 805as Алиса
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 Alissa 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 43K (inferred from the name graph)
488,951 named Alice, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Алиса in RU Russia, FI Finland, CN China, Alisa in US United States, SE Sweden, Alysa in BR Brazil, FR France and Alicia in ES Spain.
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 the Germanic languages.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alissa 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 | 9,116as Alisa | 1 in 611 | 13K | Алиса | 37 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 209K | Alysa | 38 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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)
Alissa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, probablement de alle, autre, deuxième, suivante. C'est un prénom courant. Fête : 26 mars (8 avril). 16
as a nameRussian Names
In German, weibl. Vom., niederländische, eng lische [a'lisa] oder russische Nebenform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Variant of pAlicia.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
English: variant of ALICIA .
as a word
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)
- Ayn Randb. 1905USnot in their usual nameRussian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
- Alisa Freindlichb. 1934RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Alisa Lepselterb. 1963USAmerican film editor
- Alisä Ğällämeväb. 1972RURussian chess player
- Alisa Grebenshchikovab. 1978RURussian actress (born 1978)
- Alissa White-Gluzb. 1985CACanadian singer
- Anissa Kateb. 1987FRnot in their usual nameFrench pornographic actress and director
- Alissa Czisnyb. 1987USAmerican figure skater
- Alisa Durbrowb. 1988JPJapanese actress and singer
- Alisa Kleybanovab. 1989RURussian tennis player
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 88 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 35K | #1,148 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #4,347 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.1K | #1,537 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.5K | #646 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.4K | #7,405 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 773 | #2,035 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 618 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 478 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 102 | #15,577 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 99 | — |
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 Alissa mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from the Germanic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Alissa a male or female name?
- Alissa 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 Alissa?
- In the etymology graph, Alicia, Alice and Alyssa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alissa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 489 thousand people named Alice, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Alissa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 488,951 people named Alice in 2022, about 1 in 433 residents.
- How common is Alissa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Alissa is the 108th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alissa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alissaThe 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, “Alissa” — the 108th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.