Lisa (given name)
Lisa | |
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Pronunciation | /ˈliːsə/ |
Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | English |
Meaning | God's promise |
Other names | |
Related names | Elizabeth or Liz, Eliza |
The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elisabeth or Elizabeth. In the United Kingdom, the name Lisa began to gain popularity during the 1960s, by 1974 it was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later it was the 14th most popular female name there. However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100.[1] Similarly, in the US it was the most popular female name for most of the 1960s and in the top 10 through most of the 1970s before falling.
Notable people with the given name Lisa
- Lisa (French musician) (born 1997, Lisa Gautier, French singer performing as "Lisa"
- LISA (Japanese musician, born 1974) stylized "LISA", Elizabeth Sakura Narita, member of the Japanese hip-hop group m-flo
- Lisa Ann, American pornographic actress
- Lisa Arce (born 1969), beach volleyball player
- Lisa Aukland (born 1958), American bodybuilder and powerlifter
- Lisa Aziz (born 1962), British television presenter
- Lisa Bonet (born 1967), American actress
- Maja-Lisa Borgman (1750-1791), Swedish coffee house owner
- Lisa Cross (born 1978), British bodybuilder
- Lisa Curry-Kenny, Australian swimmer
- Lisa D'Amato, model and contestant in America's Next Top Model
- Lisa Dahlkvist, Swedish football player
- Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer
- Lisa Erlandsdotter, Swedish artist
- Lisa Foiles, actress
- Lisa Germano, American singer/songwriter
- Lisa Gherardini, namesake and possible model for the Mona Lisa
- Lisa Gleave, actress and model
- Lisa M. Hansen, American producer, actress, director, and writer
- Lisa Hilton, British author
- Lisa Kehler, English race walker
- Lisa Kelly (trucker), American trucker
- Lisa Kelly, Irish classical singer
- Lisa Kudrow, actress
- Lisa Lambe, Irish singer and performer
- Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian
- Lisa Lavie, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Lisa Leslie, basketball player
- Lisa Ling, American journalist
- Lisa Loeb, pop singer/songwriter
- Lisa Lopes, American musician, member of TLC
- Lisa Lucas, American actress and journalist
- Lisa Mainiero, American writer and management professor
- Lisa Marie Presley, American singer, daughter of Elvis Presley
- Lisa Marx, guitarist and member of Kittie
- Lisa McPherson, Scientologist
- Lisa McCune, Australian actress
- Lisa Mitchell, Australian musician
- Ivory (wrestler) née Lisa Moretti, American wrestler
- Lisa Niemi, American actress, widow of Patrick Swayze
- Lisa Nowak, American astronaut; arrested for attempted kidnap and attempted murder
- Lisa Origliasso, Australian musician, member of The Veronicas
- Lisa Osofsky, British/American lawyer
- Lisa Parks, American media scholar
- Lisa Powell, Australian field hockey player
- Lisa Ray, Canadian actress
- Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
- Lisa Rinna, actress
- Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
- Lisa Scott-Lee, British singer, member of Steps
- Lisa Marie (actress) née Lisa Marie Smith, American model and actress
- Lisa Stansfield, British singer
- Lisa Steier, Swedish ballerina
- Lisa Stokke, Norwegian actress and singer
- Lisa Tucker (singer), American singer
- Lisa Marie Varon, American bodybuilder, fitness competitor, and wrestler
- Lisa Velez, singer, better known as Lisa Lisa
- Lisa Wallace, Big Brother 2009 contestant
- Lisa Walton, New Zealand field hockey player
- Lisa Wooding, English field hockey player
- Lisa Mantler, German social media person, (from Lisa and Lena)
- List of names starting with Lisa
Fictional characters
- Lisa Burnett , founder and President of SPS
- Lisa (1990 film), a 1990 film starring Cheryl Ladd, featuring a character named Lisa
- Lisa (2001 film), a 2001 film starring Marion Cotillard, featuring a character named Lisa
- Lisa, mythical girlfriend of the Internet Oracle
- Lisa, portrayed by Juliette Danielle, the female lead in Tommy Wiseau's film The Room
- Lisa in the film Weird Science
- Lisa, one of the protagonists of the book series featuring Gaspard and Lisa
- Lisa Braeden, a character in the television series Supernatural
- Lisa Cuddy, a character in House M.D
- Lisa Dingle, a character in the popular British soap opera Emmerdale
- Lisa Douglas, the socialite wife of Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s sitcom Green Acres
- Lisa Fortier, a fictional voodoo priestess portrayed by Pam Grier in the blaxploitation film Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
- Lisa Carol Fremont, a character played by Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's film Rear Window (1954)
- Lisa Heffenbacker, a character from the TV series The Electric Company
- Lisa Garland, a character in the video game franchise Silent Hill
- Lisa Grimaldi, a character in the soap opera As The World Turns
- Lisa Haglund, a character of the Bert Diaries novels series
- Lisa Hamilton, a character in the Dead or Alive video game series
- Lisa Hayes, a main character in the Robotech television series
- Lisa Loud from The Loud House
- Lisa Niles, a character in the American soap opera General Hospital
- Lisa Rowe, a charismatic sociopath portrayed by Angelina Jolie in the film Girl, Interrupted
- Lisa Simpson, character in the TV Show The Simpsons
- Lisa Turtle, a character in the teen show Saved by the Bell
- Lisa Watmough, a character in Robert Swindells's book Room 13
- Princess Lisa, a character in Tolstoy's book War and Peace
See also
- Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host
- Liisa (given name)
- Lisa (disambiguation)
- Lisa (surname)
- Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
References
- ↑ "Lisa - Meaning And Origin Of The Name Lisa". BabyNames.co.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
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