Elisa
Elisa reached its high-water mark in 2012 at number 368, and has been recorded 47,804 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 458th. About 42,000 Elisas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elisa boys named Elisa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 47,804
- Estimated living today
- 42,000
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 368th
- Rank in 2025
- 458th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 47,661 / 143
How old the living Elisas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 47,804 babies given the name since 1880, about 42,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 3,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
A spelling variant of Elise.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Elisas
- Elisa Bonaparte (1777–1820)French princess
- Elisa (born 1977)Italian singer-songwriter
- Elisa Longo Borghini (born 1991)Italian racing cyclist
- Elisa Balsamo (born 1998)Italian cyclist
- Elisa Rigaudo (born 1980)Italian racewalker
- Elisa Ferreira (born 1955)Portuguese politician
- Elisa Di Francisca (born 1982)Italian foil fencer
- Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (1887–1973)Romanian engineer
People named Elisa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elisa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elisa is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.7×), Arizona (2.6×), Texas (2.4×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular girls’ names the year Elisa peaked:
Elisa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Elisa | 66,662 | — |
| France girls | Elisa +1 spelling | 58,235 | 29th |
| Belgium girls | Elisa +1 spelling | 5,757 | 26th |
| Austria girls | Elisa | 4,530 | 27th |
| Switzerland girls | Elisa +1 spelling | 4,112 | 28th |
| England and Wales girls | Elisa | 2,625 | 330th |
| Spain girls | Elisa | 1,627 | 90th |
| Norway girls | Elisa | 954 | 170th |
| Poland girls | Elisa | 385 birth registrations | 213th |
| Ireland girls | Elisa | 260 | 203rd |
| Italy boys | Elisa | 197 | — |
| Scotland girls | Elisa | 171 | 346th |
| Sweden girls | Elisa | 129 | 100th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Elisa | 4 | 361st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Elisa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Elisa | 2,176 | 0.175% | 33rd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Élisa | 3 | 0.000% | 1,346th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Elisa | 1,460 | 0.336% | 13th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Élisa | 29 | 0.007% | 416th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Elisa | 437 | 0.670% | 4th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Elisa | 7 | 0.188% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Elisa is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.66% of children were given it – 411 of them.
Elisa: rank by region
In 2025, Elisa was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Elisa | 75 | 68 |
| Wallonia | Elisa | 76 | 33 |
| Brussels | Elisa | 57 | 16 |
In 2024, Elisa was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Elisa | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Elisa was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubelskie | Elisa | 147 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Elisa | 232 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Elisa | 276 | 3 |
| Pomorskie | Elisa | 209 | 2 |
In 2010, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Elisa appears in the lists for Nord-ovest (10th).
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elisa appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (18th), Brussels-Capital Region (57th), Province of Namur (60th), Province of Flemish Brabant (65th), Province of Liège (65th), Province of Antwerp (67th), Province of East Flanders (78th) and Province of Hainaut (80th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Elisa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 584 | 25th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Elisa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Elisa | 5,544 | 19,250 |
| the Netherlands girls | Elisa | 5,042 | 14,510 |
| the Netherlands boys | Elisa | 139 | 1,100 |
Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,100 who carry it, 139 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Elisa lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 34,778 women called Elisa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Elisa | 536 | 3.379 | 61 |
| Valladolid | Elisa | 671 | 2.474 | 91 |
| Pontevedra | Elisa | 1,090 | 2.222 | 100 |
| León | Elisa | 507 | 2.205 | 94 |
| Teruel | Elisa | 146 | 2.188 | 89 |
| Zamora | Elisa | 176 | 2.106 | 103 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Elisa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.