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Chisa

Girls' name

From Japanese ちさ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Chisa has been given to 206 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1980, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Chisa, 2015

1 in 740,000

Chisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chisa: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese ちさ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Chisa means

Chisa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Chisa is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Chisa comes through Japanese ちさ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Chisa is pronounced /tʃi.sa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 206 girls were recorded with the name Chisa between 1979 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1980; its best national rank was #1,646 in 1980.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chisa?

Chisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chisa 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chisa was born before 1980 — so the typical Chisa is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
74.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
206
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 74.3% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Chisa 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
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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 1980 (70)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,646
1980

Spellings of Chisa

Chisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 78.0% against Chisa's 0.02%.

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.

Where Chisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Chisa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,471,433 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chisa around the world

Where Chisa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chisa 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
#1,646
1980
Peak year
1980
70 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
206
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chisa

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

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Sibling names for Chisa

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

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