Brisa

Where Brisa comes from

Brisa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #6,900 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Brisa Roché born
    American singer, composer, and songwriter
  3. 1999
    Brisa Hennessy born
    Costa Rican surfer
  4. 2010
    Peak, #464
    653 babies named Brisa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #914.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Brisa Roché · American singer, composer, and songwriter, born 1976
  • Brisa Hennessy · Costa Rican surfer, born 1999
  • Brisa Bruggesser · Argentine field hockey player, born 2002
  • Brisa De Angulo · Colombian activist, born 1985

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.