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Delisa

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delisa has been given to 3,251 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1965, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Delisa, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delisa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delisa means

Delisa is a given name.

The naming story behind Delisa

Wikidata records Delisa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q124476342, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,251 girls were recorded with the name Delisa between 1951 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 145 in 1965; its best national rank was #825 in 1965.

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.

How common is Delisa?

Delisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delisa 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delisa was born before 1971 — so the typical Delisa is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (1,151).

Is Delisa 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1965 (145)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#825
1965

Spellings of Delisa

Delisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 32.8% against Delisa's 0.11%.

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 Delisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Delisa was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 76,041 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 50,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 50,000

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. Delisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delisa around the world

Where Delisa 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.

  • France
    2012–2012
    #8,014
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Delisa 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
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Best rank ever
#825
1965
Peak year
1965
145 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,251
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delisa

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

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Names with a curve like Delisa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Delisa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Delisa

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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