Alisa

Where Alisa comes from

The dictionaries list Alisa as a given name — a female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Finnish
  • Russian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1934
    Alisa Freindlich born
    Soviet and Russian actress
  2. 1945
    First appearance
    #4,025 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1969
    Peak, #261
    1,108 babies named Alisa — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #428.
  5. 1989
    Alisa Kleybanova born
    Russian tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice.
Namesakes
  • Alisa Freindlich · Soviet and Russian actress, born 1934
  • Alisa Kleybanova · Russian tennis player, born 1989
  • Alisa Camplin · Australian freestyle skier, born 1974
  • Alisa Marić · Serbian chess player, born 1970
  • Alisa Ozhogina · Spanish synchro swimmer, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.