Lisa

Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lēʹsə, lēʹzə, līʹzə, IPA^(key): /ˈliːsə/, /ˈliːzə/, /ˈlaɪzə/
• (General American) enPR: lēʹsə, lēʹzə, līʹzə, IPA^(key): /ˈlisə/, /ˈlizə/, /ˈlaɪzə/
• Rhymes: -iːsə, -iːzə, -aɪzə
• Homophones: LISA, Liza, liza

Lisa (plural Lisas)

1. A female given name.

   You were born in the '70s? Were you named after Lisa on As the World Turns?

• Taken to general use as a full English given name in early 20th century. Very popular in the U.S. in the 1960s, and in the U.K. a decade later.

• 1868 Concocted by William Meynell Whittmore (and others): Sunshine: page 138:

  Elizabeth coloured.

  "Oh, I don't want the doll called after me, if that is what you mean," she said, rather disdainfully.

  "Nonsense, Lisa!" laughed her father, "you ought to consider yourself highly honoured to have such a handsome lady as this for your namesake."

• 1997 Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger. Grove Press. →ISBN

  Lisa is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang - whoom! Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain.

• 2007 Elinor Lipman, My Latest Grievance →ISBN page 16:

  Did I want to be burdened with a common name? Be the third Lisa and fourth Susan in my classroom? Darleen or Doreen or Maureen?

  I did.

• Alis, Isla, LIAs, Lias, SAIL, SiAl, ails, lais, lias, sail, sial

Aphetic form of Felisa. Also from English Liza, Lisa, diminutives of Elizabeth.

Lisa

1. a female given name

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Lisa.

Lisa

1. A female given name derived from Elisabeth.

Lisa

1. A female given name

Matronymics

• son of Lisa: Lisuson
• daughter of Lisa: Lisudóttir

Clipping of Élisabeth

• IPA^(key): /li.za/

Lisa

1. A female given name, diminutive of Élisabeth.

• ails, lias, sali, sila

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːza/

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Lisa

1. A female given name derived from Elisabeth.

Lisa f

1. A female given name, diminutive of Elisabetta.

• sali, salì
• Sila

Lisa f

1. A diminutive of the female given name Lisabé.
2. A female given name.

• Lison

Lisa

1. A female given name derived from Elisabeth.

Short form of Elisabet. First recorded in Sweden in 1558.

Lisa c (genitive Lisas)

1. A female given name.

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 31 611 females with the given name Lisa living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 1910s and the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.