Risa (given name)

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Risa
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameJapanese
MeaningIt can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used Originally from English name “Lisa”
Region of originJapan / U.S

Risa (りさ, リサ) is a female given name, which exists most commonly in Japanese, but may be found elsewhere.

Possible writings[]

Risa can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

  • 梨彩, "pear, coloring"
  • 梨沙, "pear, sand"
  • 梨紗, "pear, silk gauze"
  • 里沙, "village, sand"
  • 里紗, "village, silk gauze"
  • 理沙, "reason, sand"
  • 理佐, "reason, aid"
  • 理紗, "reason, silk gauze"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People[]

  • Risa Goto (理沙, born 1983), Japanese actress and gravure idol
  • Risa Hayamizu (リサ, born 1975), Japanese voice actress
  • Risa Hayashida (理沙, born 1989), Japanese announcer
  • Risa Hirako (理沙, born 1971), Japanese fashion model
  • Risa Honda (理沙, born 1971), Japanese idol and tarento
  • Risa Honma (理紗, born 1990), Japanese idol
  • Risa Hontiveros (born 1966), Filipino socialist activist, politician, and journalist
  • Risa Horowitz (born 1970), Canadian visual and media artist
  • Risa Ishii (里沙, born 1990), Japanese volleyball player
  • Risa Itō (理佐, born 1969), Japanese manga artist
  • Risa Junna (りさ, born 1971), Japanese actress
  • Risa Kawano, Japanese drummer
  • Risa Kudō (里紗, born 1983), Japanese model and actress
  • Risa L. Goluboff, American lawyer and legal historian
  • Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (born 1954), American doctor
  • Risa Miyashita (梨沙, born 1984), Japanese javelin thrower
  • Risa Mizuno (水野 理紗, born 1978), Japanese voice actress
  • Risa Niigaki (里沙, born 1988), Japanese singer and actress
  • Risa Nishioka (西岡 里紗, born 1997), Japanese women's basketball player
  • Risa Shimizu (理沙, born 1988), Japanese actress and voice actress
  • Risa Oribe (里沙, born 1987), Japanese singer
  • Risa Ohki (理紗, born 1960), Japanese vocalist
  • Risa Ozaki (里紗, born 1994), Japanese tennis player
  • Risa Rosales (born 1998) American Mentor for Verizon Wireless
  • Risa Sato (理沙, born 1994), Filipino-Japanese volleyball player
  • Risa Sera (理紗, born 1991), Japanese professional wrestler and actress
  • Risa Shigetomo (梨佐, born 1987), Japanese long-distance runner
  • Risa Shimamoto (里沙, born 1987), Japanese gravure idol
  • Risa Shimizu (actress) (清水 理沙, born 1988), Japanese actress and voice actress
  • Risa Shimizu (footballer) (清水 梨紗, born 1996), Japanese football player
  • Risa Shinnabe (理沙, born 1990), Japanese volleyball player
  • Risa Shiragaki (里紗, born 1991), Japanese volleyball player
  • Risa Shōji (理紗, born 1996), Japanese figure skater
  • Risa Sugimoto (杉本 梨沙, born 1994), Japanese squash player
  • Risa Tachibana (理佐, born 1971), Japanese idol
  • Risa Takenaka (理沙, born 1990), Japanese long-distance runner
  • Risa Taneda (梨沙, born 1988), Japanese voice actress
  • Risa Tsubaki (理沙, born 1979), Japanese voice actress
  • Risa Watanabe (理佐, born 1998), Japanese idol and model
  • Risa Wataya (りさ, born 1984), Japanese novelist
  • Risa Wechsler, American physicist
  • Risa Yoshiki (りさ, born 1987), Japanese gravure idol and singer

Fictional characters[]

  • Risa Harada (梨紗), character from the anime and manga series, D.N.Angel
  • Risa Koizumi, character from the anime and manga series, Lovely Complex
  • Risa Kanzaki, character from the anime and manga series, Neighborhood Story and Paradise Kiss
  • Lisa, character from the animated film, Ponyo
  • Risa Ward, character from the young adult science fiction novel Unwind (novel) by Neal Shusterman
  • Lisa Imai, character from mixed-media franchise, BanG Dream!
  • Risa Onda, a character in the horror video game, Forbidden Siren
  • Risa, a character from the animated film, Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us

See also[]

  • Lisa
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