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Larisa

#7,703 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly citadel

Larisa has been given to 3,458 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #7,703 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 108 recorded.

Babies named Larisa, 2025

1 in 237,000

Larisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Larisa: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly citadel

Ancient Greek

What Larisa means

Larisa may mean “citadel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Larisa is used in English, Latvian and Lithuanian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Лари́са.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,458 girls were recorded with the name Larisa between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 108 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,046 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,213 in 2020 to #7,703 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,247 in 2015 to #7,703 in 2025.

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 Larisa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,703
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Larisa 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 2025 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Larisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Larisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Larisa was born before 1989 — so the typical Larisa is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,458
People you could plausibly meet
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1990s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (814).

Is Larisa 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
−1,411
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+510
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+544
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.0%
Peak was 1993 (108)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,046
1968

Spellings of Larisa

Larisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 39.2% against Larisa's 0.14%.

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 Larisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Larisa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 99,362 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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

Larisa around the world

Where Larisa 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    2002–2025
    #5,944
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1985
    #644
    in 1985
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Larisa

People whose public names include Larisa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Larisa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Larisa. Linked forms have their own page here.

LarsaLarysaLarissaLaryssaLarissza

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Larisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,703
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 510
Best rank ever
#1,046
1968
Peak year
1993
108 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,458
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Larisa

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

LarkinLarrisaLaraeLarueLariahLaramieJulisaYulisaJalisaEloisaLaritaLaraineLarryLareenLarkynClarisaLariyahLarkAnalisaLareinaParisaLarettaLaroseLaraya

Names with a curve like Larisa

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

ToryMirnaNidiaRebeckaJaymieTorriKymberlyRachellAlisiaDionnaJenifferJacinda

Sibling names for Larisa

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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