Elissa

Locally spelled Elisa in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, MX Mexico and 4 more and Eliza in LV Latvia.

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.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elissa, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Alicia
• Marissa
• Alisha
• Larissa
• Gabrielle

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.

Elissa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Élissa, Elíssa, Ëlïssä, Elisśa, Elïssä

• French given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

  Also written Élissa, Elîssâ, Èlïssâ, Èlissa

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Élissa

• Polish given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Poland, United Kingdom

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

  Also written El-Issa

• Italian given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom

  Also written Êlissā, Élissa

• Russian given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Элисса, Елісса, Elyssa, Елисса, Ėlissa

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Elissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, synonym of Dīdō (“legendary foundress and queen of Carthage”)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Elissa Landib. 1904USItalian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s
• Elissa Knightb. 1975USAmerican actress
• Elissa Slotkinb. 1976USAmerican politician (born 1976)

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).

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.

68 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Elissa mean, and where does it come from?

Dido, queen of Carthage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Elissa?

It depends on the language: in English /əˈli(ː)s.ə/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /elisa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What are other forms of the name Elissa?

In the etymology graph, Lisa, Betty and Beth are forms of the same name in other languages.

How common is the name Elissa?

In Brazil, the national register counted 110,902 people named Elisa in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.

How common is Elissa compared with other names?

In Italy, Elissa is the 73rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

Is Elissa a male or female name?

Elissa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Finland (DVV), among others.

Which countries have the most people named Elissa?

Mondonomo estimates about 296 thousand people named Elisa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Mexico, United States and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.