Given name
Lysa
“my God is bountiful”
Lysa is a variant of Lisa. In English use, Lisa carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lysa is a variant of Lisa. In English use, Lisa carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lysa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 761
- 0 boys · 761 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 33 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,120 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.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lysa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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