Given name & surname
Chisa
Chisa is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and French.
Original Japanese知冴
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chisa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 206
- 0 boys · 206 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 70 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 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 70 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 287 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.
Chisa’s family of names
In English usage, Chisa was borrowed from the Japanese form ちさ. In Japanese usage, Chisa is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千沙. In Japanese usage, Chisa is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千砂.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 8
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chisa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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