Elisa
Meaning of Elisa
Elisa drifts through history like a silk ribbon caught in a Mediterranean breeze—born of the ancient Hebrew Elisheva, refined by Greek lips, and baptized anew in golden-tongued Latin so that, whether uttered as eh-LEE-suh or eh-LEE-zah, she still carries the steady heartbeat of the phrase “God is my oath.” In the story she tells, basil-scented courtyards of Tuscany echo with lullabies to little Elisas, while Baroque chapels in Seville lift her name heavenward beside flickering candles; centuries later, the same name leaves Beethoven’s piano in whispered arpeggios, reminding listeners that devotion, too, can be set to music. Across the American landscape her presence has been quiet yet unwavering—her footsteps tracing the national records from the Gilded Age through every decade since, rising and receding like tides yet never disappearing, a testament to her understated grace. She is a bridge between old-world reverence and modern lightness, a name that dresses a newborn in both the soft blush of tradition and the bright promise of tomorrow, inviting parents to place upon their daughter a vow as enduring as stone and as luminous as morning sun on Verona’s marble streets.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as eh-LEE-suh (/ɛˈliːsə/)
Italian
- Pronunced as eh-LEE-zah (/eˈliːza/)
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Notable People Named Elisa
| Elisa is an Italian singer-songwriter famous for hits like "Come Speak to Me" and "Dancing," and her Grammy-nominated collaboration on the Django Unchained soundtrack. |
| Elisa Bonaparte was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon who held titles like Princess of Lucca and Grand Duchess of Tuscany through his appointments. |
| Elisa Sednaoui is a social entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist of Syrian, Italian, Egyptian, and French heritage who began as a model, actress, and director, appeared in films and major fashion campaigns, founded the Elisa Sednaoui Foundation and Funtasia to promote creative learning, and released a bestselling book in 2022. |
| Elisa Brătianu - Elisa Bratianu was a Romanian aristocrat and cultural advocate who joined the 1919 Inter-Allied Women's Conference, designed gardens, preserved folk embroidery through schools and pattern books, and founded a library to publish her husband Ion I C Bratianu's works. |
| Elisa Montessori is an Italian painter. |
| Argentine American artist Elisa Pritzker works across two and three dimensional media. |
| Elisa Carrió - Elisa Maria Avelina Lilita Carrio is an Argentine lawyer, professor, and politician, leader of Civic Coalition ARI, cofounder of Cambiemos, former National Deputy for Chaco and Buenos Aires, known for her liberal Christian and heterodox views. |
| Elisa Albert is the author of the story collection How this Night is Different, the novels The Book of Dahlia, After Birth, and Human Blues, and an anthology on siblings. |
| Elisa Balsamo is an Italian road and track cyclist who rides for Lidl-Trek and represents Italy in international competition. |
| Elisa Izaurralde was a Uruguayan biochemist and molecular biologist who directed the Max Planck Institute’s biochemistry department in Tübingen from 2005 to 2018, won the 2008 Leibniz Prize, and advanced understanding of mRNA export, silencing, translational repression, and decay. |
| Elisa Elvira Zuloaga was a prizewinning Venezuelan painter and engraver with works in the National Art Gallery in Caracas and a lasting legacy in South American graphic art. |
| Elisa Holopainen is a Finnish ice hockey winger for Frolunda HC and the Finnish national team. |
| Elisa Victoria Quintana is an American astronomer at NASA Goddard known for exoplanet research and the discovery of Kepler 186f, the first Earth sized planet found in the habitable zone of another star. |
| Elisa Gabbert is an American writer, poet, and essayist, author of numerous books and currently a New York Times poetry columnist. |
| Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu was a pioneering Romanian engineer, among the first women to earn an engineering degree, who qualified in Berlin and ran a Romanian hospital during World War I. |
