Marlisa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹɫisə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marlisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: María y Elisa.
- USUnited States1 in 448K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 58K
- NLNetherlands1 in 208K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
743 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
María y Elisa
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marlisa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 743 | 1 in 448K | 740 | Marlisa | 183 |
| BR Brazil | 669 | 1 in 316K | 683 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 83 | 1 in 208K | 83 | Marlisa | 9 |
| GY Guyana | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | Marlisa | 2 |
| LV Latvia | 2 | 1 in 941K | 2 | — | — |
743 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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).
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 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 740 | #15,472 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 683 | #5,994 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 670 | #11,937 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 669 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 669 | #10,934 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 638 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 566 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 391 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 213 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 178 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 175 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 115 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Marlisa?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹɫisə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Marlisa mean?
- Recorded meaning: María y Elisa
- Is Marlisa a male or female name?
- Marlisa 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 Marlisa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 743 people named Marlisa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marlisa.
- Where is Marlisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marlisa is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marlisa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 743 people named Marlisa in 2020, about 1 in 448 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marlisaThe 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, “Marlisa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.