Alisa
Alisa was given to 125 girls in 2025, #1,654 among girls’ names; 34,727 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,600 Americans named Alisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 29 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alisa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alisa is “a female given name from Finnish or Russian, equivalent to English Alice.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alisa?
#1,654 among girls’ names, 2025
Alisa fell from #1,034 in 2015 to #1,654 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.08 per 1,000.
1,153 babies in 1970, the peak
Alisa peaked in 1970, when 1,153 girls were given it, #265 among girls’ names. The 125 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,654 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 153 | #1,441 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 171 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,236 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 186 | #1,227 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 207 | #1,158 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 248 | #1,039 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 262 | #990 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 259 | #1,022 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 258 | #1,034 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 286 | #944 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,046 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 261 | #972 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 247 | #1,012 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 278 | #931 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 285 | #938 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 320 | #873 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 321 | #868 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 300 | #887 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 356 | #752 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 382 | #701 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 374 | #699 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 404 | #630 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 384 | #656 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 415 | #611 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 415 | #590 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 418 | #580 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 387 | #592 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 415 | #562 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 419 | #557 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 449 | #543 | 0.25 |
| 1993 | 417 | #571 | 0.23 |
| 1992 | 465 | #513 | 0.25 |
| 1991 | 507 | #481 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 533 | #458 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 538 | #451 | 0.29 |
| 1988 | 489 | #458 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 490 | #451 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 487 | #443 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 492 | #445 | 0.29 |
| 1984 | 510 | #416 | 0.30 |
| 1983 | 508 | #426 | 0.30 |
| 1982 | 512 | #428 | 0.30 |
| 1981 | 570 | #396 | 0.34 |
| 1980 | 621 | #374 | 0.37 |
| 1979 | 762 | #313 | 0.47 |
| 1978 | 575 | #370 | 0.38 |
| 1977 | 641 | #346 | 0.42 |
| 1976 | 587 | #357 | 0.40 |
| 1975 | 576 | #361 | 0.40 |
| 1974 | 667 | #331 | 0.45 |
| 1973 | 787 | #299 | 0.54 |
| 1972 | 775 | #310 | 0.51 |
| 1971 | 1,063 | #271 | 0.64 |
| 1970 | 1,153 | #265 | 0.66 |
| 1969 | 1,108 | #261 | 0.66 |
| 1968 | 999 | #271 | 0.61 |
| 1967 | 921 | #278 | 0.56 |
| 1966 | 862 | #291 | 0.51 |
| 1965 | 924 | #288 | 0.52 |
| 1964 | 820 | #333 | 0.43 |
| 1963 | 934 | #303 | 0.48 |
| 1962 | 667 | #364 | 0.34 |
| 1961 | 602 | #391 | 0.30 |
| 1960 | 584 | #395 | 0.29 |
| 1959 | 491 | #431 | 0.24 |
| 1958 | 419 | #463 | 0.21 |
| 1957 | 264 | #598 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 243 | #612 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 185 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 137 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 99 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 61 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,852 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,710 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,669 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,031 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alisa has been given almost only to girls: 22 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alisa, and how old are they?
32,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 34,727 Americans ever recorded as Alisa. The median Alisa alive today is 46 years old; half are between 29 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 33,213 people named Alisa (33,150 women and girls, 63 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 32,230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,700 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,580 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,730 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alisa born?
The states with the most babies named Alisa are California, New York and Texas, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 4,978 | #1,054 | 1.3× |
| New York | 2,713 | #1,090 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 2,230 | #2,934 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 1,549 | #1,058 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 1,468 | #1,277 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,455 | #1,422 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,281 | #1,116 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 1,157 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 1,059 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 995 | #1,449 | 1.0× |
Where Alisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alisa is most over-represented in Utah: since 1945 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alisa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 424,149 babies since 1880, Alisa is the third most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 125 of their 1,053 babies (12%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alisa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alisa and names like it
- Compare Alisa and AlyssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAlisa peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alisa since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Alisa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Alisa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Alisa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.