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Lissa

#8,649 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Melissa

Lissa has been given to 3,979 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #8,649 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Lissa, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lissa: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Melissa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lissa means

Lissa is a short form of Melissa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Lissa is a short form of Melissa. Melissa has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melissa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,979 girls were recorded with the name Lissa between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 122 in 1963; its best national rank was #957 in 1958.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,718 in 2020 to #8,649 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,883 in 2015 to #8,649 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.

How common is Lissa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,649
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lissa 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lissas were born

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

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,829
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Choose a decade

1960s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (989).

Is Lissa 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
−841
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+69
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,234
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.8%
Peak was 1963 (122)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#957
1958

Spellings of Lissa

Lissa is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 33.7% against Lissa's 0.09%.

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 Lissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Lissa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 76,439 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Lissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lissa around the world

Where Lissa 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
    2001–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • Scotland
    1975–1991
    #634
    in 1991
  • France
    1983–2025
    #5,150
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1955–1981
    #616
    in 1981

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

Notable people named Lissa

People whose public names include Lissa, 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.

Lissa in other languages

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

LisaLizzaLyssa

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

Lissa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,649
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 69
Best rank ever
#957
1958
Peak year
1963
122 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,979
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Lissa

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

LishaJessaLissetLisbethNyssaDessaNissaAlessaNessaAnessaBrissaLiseLisetteLisethArissaTressaElyssaLisetAnyssaYulissaJalissaLissetteJenessaAissa

Names with a curve like Lissa

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

LianeRoniMartiReneaJuleeCristineLinetteLanitaJackiCyndiSherieMark

Sibling names for Lissa

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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