Lissa

Where Lissa comes from

Lissa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1923
    First appearance
    #4,967 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Peak, #958
    116 babies named Lissa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,854.
  4. 1982
    Lissa Vera born
    Argentine singer-actor
  5. 1993
    Lissa Labiche born
    Seychellois athlete
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lissa Labiche · Seychellois athlete, born 1993
  • Lissa Vera · Argentine singer-actor, born 1982
  • Lissa Hunter · American artist, born 1945
  • Lissa Martinez · American ocean engineer, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.