Lisa

girls:

966.7k births since 1886

#16 (100th percentile)

boys:

2.8k births since 1952

#2388 (48th percentile)

overall:

969.5k births since 1886

#47 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lisa".

1886 2023 18862023

Key Statistics

Total Births
966,683
Peak Births
60,268
Peak Year
1962
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
100.0%
Current Percentile
31.7%
Peak Rank
#1
Current Rank
#647
Female statistics
Total Births
2,784
Peak Births
177
Peak Year
1965
First Recorded
1952
Peak Percentile
25.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#478
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Lisa

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lisa. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 73.9% confident that Lisa is pronounced as LEE-suh. The next most likely pronunciation is LIH-suh, at 8.7% confidence.

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LIH-suh (2 syllables)
8.7% confidence
L IH1 S AH0
LAI-suh (2 syllables)
8.7% confidence
L AY1 S AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Lisa. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Lisa, please vote using the thumbs up button.

LEE-see-uh (3 syllables)
6 names 5.4k births
L IY1 S IY0 AH0
LEE-zee-uh (3 syllables)
4 names 4.5k births
L IY1 Z IY0 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.