Aliisa

Girls' name

Noble + character, through Alice

Aliisa has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1969, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Aliisa, 1969

1 in 695,000

Aliisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aliisa: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + character, through Alice

Germanic languages

What Aliisa means

Aliisa belongs to the name family reached through Aliisa → Alice → Alis. Its meaning is “noble + character”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aliisa is used in Finnish. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Aliisa comes through French Alice.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice and Alis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Aliisa is pronounced /ˈɑliːsɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Aliisa between 1969 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1969; its best national rank was #7,490 in 1969.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Aliisa?

Aliisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969: 1 in 695,000; 5 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only: 1 in 337,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,756 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Aliisa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aliisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aliisa was born before 1969 — so the typical Aliisa is around 56 today.

Median birth year: 1969; About 56 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Aliisa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1969 (5)
Years since peak: 56; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #7,490; 1969

Spellings of Aliisa

Aliisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 47.0% against Aliisa's <0.01%.

Lisa47.0%967,229
Alyssa15.3%314,606
Alicia11.2%230,790
Alisha2.8%56,996
Alaina2.5%50,578
Elisa2.3%47,661
Alina2.2%45,387
Alissa1.9%38,591

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aliisa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,490; 1969
Peak year: 1969; 5 that year
First recorded: 1969
Last recorded: 1969
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Aliisa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Alini Aliyzah Aliyza Alieda Alieen Aliska Alitia Alista Alixia Alizai Alisun Alizet Aliyia Alixon Alimae Alizeth Alirah Aliette Alish Alixe Aliccia Aliysha Aliziah Alisiah

Sibling names for Aliisa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shannan Marnie Charla Richelle Nichelle Brigette Nicolle Janeen

For a brother

Jacques Judd Douglass Kraig Kelley Edwardo Shon Brant

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