Risa
Risa reached its high-water mark in 1962 at number 925, and has been recorded 4,177 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,554th. About 3,800 Risas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Risa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,177
- Estimated living today
- 3,800
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 925th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,554th
- First recorded
- 1942
How old the living Risas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,177 babies given the name since 1942, about 3,800 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 380 of them are children and 780 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Borrowed from Japanese りさ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Risas
- Risa Shimizu (born 1996)Japanese association football player
- Risa Niigaki (born 1988)Japanese female singer, stage actress and YouTuber
- Risa Hontiveros (born 1966)Filipino politician
- Risa Shinnabe (born 1990)Japanese volleyball player
- Risa Taneda (born 1988)Japanese voice actress and singer
- Risa Takashima (born 1999)Japanese fencer
- Risa Nishioka (born 1997)Japanese basketball player
- Risa Wataya (born 1984)Japanese writer
People named Risa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Risa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Risa is most concentrated in New York (6.2×), California (2.3×), New Jersey (1.3×), Texas (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular girls’ names the year Risa peaked:
Risa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Risa | 24 | 4,688th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Risa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.