Given name & surname · also Old Norse
Disa
“resembling an orchid”
Disa is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “resembling an orchid.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “resembling an orchid.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
How it developed
In Swedish usage, Disa is a diminutive of Desirée.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Disa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 280
- 0 boys · 280 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 16 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 16 in 1970. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 366 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.
Disa’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Disa is a diminutive of Desirée. Disa is a version of Tordis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Disa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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