Arisa
Feminine
Arisa is a Japanese name whose meaning depends on the characters chosen, and it is also used in Italian and Spanish-speaking families as a form of Arissa.
How old is the name Arisa?
Arisa first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Arisa alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 900 people named Arisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Arisa most popular?
Arisa peaked in 1992, reaching #3419 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 933 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Arisa
Ours, offered as ours. Japanese naming separates sound from sense: a family chooses how the name sounds and then chooses which characters to write it with, and the two decisions are independent. So two children called Arisa may have names that look nothing alike on paper and mean quite different things. A Roman-letter spelling records only half the name — which is not a failure of transliteration but a real limit on what alphabets can carry.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Japanese Arisa is written with characters selected by the family, commonly those for existence and sand or for a phonetic rendering. A separate Italian and Spanish Arisa is treated as a form of Arissa or Alissa. Neither carries a fixed meaning.
Pronouncing Arisa
ah-REE-sah
Three syllables; Japanese gives even weight to all three.
Nicknames for Arisa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 199232 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3419reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- +23.1%32 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Arisa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ありさ in Japanese — transliteration
- Arisa in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Arisas among us
people named Arisa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Arisa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Arisa
- #4352
- Arisa on the 2025 chart
- #909
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Arisa went to 32 girls in 2025, but Ariza is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 51, which makes it the 909th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,443 places above the chart.
- Arisa32
- Ariza19
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,227 for Arisa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darrelyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Arisa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darrelyn climbed just as high around 1950, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darrelyn's path sketches the road Arisa is walking now.
Arisa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Arisa is headed
Arisa should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Arisa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Arisa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ari and Risa are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Five letters and three syllables, quick to write.
- The Japanese meaning depends on characters a Roman spelling cannot carry.
- Arisa, Arissa and Alissa are all close and get confused.
- English readers may stress the first syllable, which Japanese does not.
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Frequently asked
- How many Arisas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Arisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Arisa?
- Arisa is the most-used spelling in US records — 32 of the 51 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ariza.
- How popular is the name Arisa in 2025?
- Arisa ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Arisa?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Arisa — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Arisa with classmates?
- Arisa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Arisa
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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