The baby name Talisa is a Girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tah-LEE-sÉ™.
Talisa is African American, English, Hebrew in Origin.
The baby name Talisa is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tah-LEE-sÉ™.
Talisa is African American, English, Hebrew in Origin.
Talisa is best analyzed as a modern English-language feminine coinage, with Talisa itself as the earliest secure form rather than an inherited medieval name. Its likely structure blends Talia, from Hebrew á¹al, dew, with the divine element Yah, and Lisa, a short form of Elizabeth from Hebrew ʾElisheva, my God is an oath. The literal force is therefore composite: dew of God plus oath, not a single ancient root.
U.S. records show the name emerging after the mid-twentieth century and peaking in 1989, the year Talisa Soto appeared in Licence to Kill. Its pattern also fits late twentieth-century African American creative naming: scholarship notes prefix-and-suffix formations, and 2020 Census first-name tables reported Black or African American as the largest group among bearers. Variants include Talissa, Talisah, Talyssa, and the adjacent Talisha; Talisa Maegyr later gave the name a fantasy-television association.
| Talisa Soto Talisa Soto is best known for playing Bond girl Lupe Lamora in Licence to Kill and Kitana in Mortal Kombat. She is a retired American actress and model who also reprised Kitana in Mortal Kombat Annihilation. |
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MT | 0 | #43 | 1 | 1,767 | |
| ID | Girls | 0 | #102 | 1 | 3,319 |
| MT | Girls | 0 | #153 | 1 | 3,773 |
| AO | Girls | 0 | #217 | 1 | 4,575 |
| JM | Girls | 0 | #275 | 4 | 7,507 |
| Canada | Girls | 2022 | #276 | 5 | 2,867 |
| TW | Girls | 0 | #289 | 1 | 8,139 |
| DK | Girls | 0 | #329 | 1 | 7,429 |
| MY | 0 | #354 | 1 | 12,352 | |
| CN | Girls | 0 | #359 | 1 | 8,829 |
| ZA | 0 | #469 | 6 | 14,421 | |
| PA | Girls | 0 | #517 | 2 | 9,861 |
| CR | Girls | 0 | #572 | 2 | 11,342 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #597 | 1 | 20,968 |
| SG | Girls | 0 | #630 | 3 | 18,916 |
| IN | Girls | 0 | #654 | 1 | 13,121 |
| Germany | Girls | 0 | #814 | 25 | 4,949 |
| NG | Girls | 0 | #826 | 1 | 15,093 |
| United States | Girls | 2024 | #909 | 8 | 8,487 |
| CL | Girls | 0 | #915 | 1 | 14,098 |
| NL | Girls | 0 | #927 | 29 | 5,933 |
| BR | Girls | 0 | #990 | 3 | 12,708 |
| PE | Girls | 0 | #1,008 | 3 | 14,861 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #1,008 | 7 | 25,931 |
| MY | Girls | 0 | #1,072 | 1 | 24,821 |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,103 | 39 | 25,928 |
| CO | Girls | 0 | #1,152 | 1 | 16,140 |
| MX | Girls | 0 | #1,267 | 1 | 17,781 |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,272 | 1 | 25,619 |
| IT | Girls | 0 | #1,407 | 40 | 9,415 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,691 | 1 | 28,008 |
Talisa is popular in 26 countries — most recent births per country:
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