Lisa

What Lisa means

Means “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”

The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.

Source: Wiktionary, “Lisa” (revision 93884539), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Lisa?

US: Falling: down from #754 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #745 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1965, when 60,271 girls got the name (#1 that year). First in the US records in 1886.

How common

• About 1 in 6,278 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,444 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.41 per 1,000 girls), WI (0.39 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.38 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Lisa is #987 in the US and #661 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lisa were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Louisa407 US · 54 E&W
• Luisa294 US · 19 E&W
• Liza126 US · 12 E&W
• Luiza36 US · 11 E&W
• Lyza30 US
• Leissa14 US
• Lissa12 US
• Loza11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lisa

Girls

• Deborah#862“bee”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Jessie#823Diminutive of Jessica, possibly meaning “Iscah in Genesis 11:29…^*
• Jamie#857Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 12,895 babies; 316 in 2025
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Marie#617Editor’s note Down from #560 in 2015 to #617 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Jeremy#292Form of Jeremiah, meaning “Yahweh exalt”^*
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Jon#951Variant of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*
• Michael#21“who is like God?”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lisa’s. Rank is US 2025.