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 / U.S

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
• 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