Risa (given name)

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

Risa

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used Originally from English name “Lisa”
Region of origin	Japan

Written forms

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 singer
• 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 singer
• 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 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
• Risa Shindo, a character from the film Battle Royale II: Requiem
• Risa Ward, character from the young adult science fiction novel Unwind (novel) by Neal Shusterman
• 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