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Lissa Morrison from the Mary Downing Hahn novel "The Old Willis Place".
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The full form of Lissa is Larissa.
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Surprised this name hasn’t had better ratings on here. I personally don’t think it’s bad at all! Very pretty name.
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I first heard about this in the Mary Downing Hahn book, and I fell in love with the name instantly! Lissa is a very pretty name :)
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Short form of names ending with -Lissa, as well as a diminutive of Lisbeth.
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In 2018, 47 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Lissa* who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 3, 794th most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
*as a first name, not a nickname.
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*as a first name, not a nickname.
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As Melissa is my own name - and I do go by Lissa all of the time- I usually end up digging up the meaning of my name and the history.
Melissa means Honeybee in Greek and was the name of the Nymph who cared for Zeus in Greek mythology. - I never really liked my name before I knew the meaning.
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Melissa means Honeybee in Greek and was the name of the Nymph who cared for Zeus in Greek mythology. - I never really liked my name before I knew the meaning.
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My oldest daughter was born in 1976. We wanted to name her Lissa. I really loved the name Melissa, but I didn't want anyone calling her Mel, so I shortened it to Lissa. I had several baby name books at the time, and in one of them, it had Lissa listed as a full name and stated it was an Israeli name meaning "Rejuvenation" I liked that, So Lissa it was. Now when I look on the internet, I can't find anything to back up the claim that it is an Israeli name meaning anything. Ugh.
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My name is Melissa and Lissa is one of my favorite nicknames. I saw above that Lissa can be a nickname for Elisabeth as well - I like that!
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Lissa is the name of a character in Fire Emblem: Awakening. She is Chrom's younger sister and Lucina's aunt.
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Could also be a nickname for Alissa/Elissa.
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I have always loved this name, especially since it's the name of one of my nieces. (My niece Lissa is older than me. All of my nieces are. Yeah, I'm the baby in the family.) Anyway, it's a glorious name, in my opinion.
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Lissa is a character in "The Old Willis Place", by Mary Downing Hahn.
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There is a very dear girl to me who's name is Lissa, but her real name is Elisabeth. I think both of these names are immensely beautiful.
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It came from the name Alyssa/Alissa before it came from the name Melissa.
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Coincidentally, the Greek word for 'queen' is 'vasilisa' (or 'vasilissa' if you transcribe the word letter for letter), so "Lissa" could be taken as a contraction of the word and mean 'queen' also.
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This name, along with common sense, is pronounced like LISSA on the name Melissa.
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"Lissa" is also the name a Bulgarian mountain, which is a mountain from the eastern part of "Stara planina" (or (the) "Balkan") - the longest and the largest of the Bulgarian mountains.
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"Lissa" is the name of the fox in all Bulgarian folk tales in which a fox takes part. "Lissa" is the most popular animal in the Bulgarian folk tales, "she" is famous for "her" cunning and dodgå, "her" skill to lie "herself" out of a scrape. The name of the fox - "Lissa" - comes from "lisitza", which is the Bulgarian word for "fox". In Bulgaria "Lissa" is not used for a woman's name.
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My mother and grandmother think Lissa is pronounced like Lisa (Lee-sah). But if it was, wouldn't Melissa sound like Mel-lee-sah and not Mel-lis-ah?
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Lissa Halls Johnson is a Christian author for teenage girls.
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