girls:
34.4k births since 1945
#744 (87th percentile)
boys:
22 births since 1963
#4564 (0th percentile)
overall:
34.4k births since 1945
#1353 (83rd percentile)
The name Alisa is the #1,353 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,445 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 82.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #744 (87.0% percentile) for all time with 34,423 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,564 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1963.
Alisa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1963 for boys).
The name Alisa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alisa reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 67.0% percentile (ranked #256) with 629 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 629 births per million (ranked 67.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alisa ranks #789 for girls (16.7% percentile) with 93 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alisa reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alisa".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alisa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.0% confident that Alisa is pronounced as uh-LEE-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LIH-suh, at 31.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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