Given name & surname
Carlisa
“a friendly woman”
Carlisa is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “a friendly woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “a friendly woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Carlisa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,001
- 0 boys · 1,001 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 39 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 39 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 829 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Carlisa’s family of names
Carlisa has a related form in Carla. Carlisa has a related form in Carlissa. Carlisa has a related form in Carlisah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Carlavariant
- Carlyssavariant
- Carlissavariant
- Carllisalikely variant
- Carrlisalikely variant
- Carlyssahvariant
- Carlysahvariant
- Carlysavariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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