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Female Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Low German short form of Elisabet and its variants [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
2) Pet form of Alice and its variants (see Aliz) [6]
3) Short form of Louisa and its variants (see Louise) [1]
Related Names
See also Lisel, Lisette, Lisken, Liss, Lissi
Male
Lisuson
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Female
Lisudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see LIS (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Lisa
|
Genitive: |
Lisas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Lisa
|
Accusative: |
Lisu
|
Dative: |
Lisu
|
Genitive: |
Lisu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Lisa
|
Genitive: |
Lisan
|
Partitive: |
Lisaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Lisa
|
Genitive: |
Lisas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Lisa
|
Genitive: |
Lisas
|
Name Days
Faroe Islands
|
2 September
|
Norway
|
2 September
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
19 November
|
Sweden
|
20 September
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- My Lisa Karolina Nilsson (born 13 August 1970), Swedish singer
- Lisa Ekdahl (born 29 July 1971), Swedish singer and composer
- Lisa Zontarsitore Langseth (born 20 April 1975), Swedish screenwriter and film director
Trivia
- Lisa was a heavy storm in Finland in November 2020.
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[13] |
|
20116 |
32437 |
20112 |
32429 |
4 |
8 |
Denmark[14] |
|
5548 |
n.a. |
5548 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[15] |
|
n.a. |
3518 |
n.a. |
3518 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[16] |
|
62 |
448 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[17] |
|
34 |
36 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
5187 |
n.a. |
5187 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [13][14][18][15]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [19]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Lisa (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables