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Lisa

Pronounced /ˈlisə/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1965 · #575
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:262 in 2024 (#984)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Lisa in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1965 with 177 babies, ranked #575.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1952.
  • 2,784 boys have been named Lisa since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Lisa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 711 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,635 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 431 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.

  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
/ˈlisə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Lisa, CC BY-SA 4.0.