Delisa

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Delisa by the numbers

Delisa was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 145 babies in 1965, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Delisa

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Delisa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Deliafrom Delos; epithet of Artemis170 in the US (2017)
  • Deliladelicate or weak; variant of Delilah41 in the US (2017)
  • Denisafollower of dionysus; a form of denise9 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Delina17 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Delsa9 in the US (2017)
  • Delisha8 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Delisa

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