Entry № 5757 · Russian origin

Larisa Larisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-REE-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Citadel (Larisa Latynina, 9 Olympic gold gymnastics — most ever)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "citadel (larisa latynina, 9 olympic gold gymnastics — most ever)".

Larisa is the Russian form of Larissa — from the ancient Greek city Lárissa in Thessaly, meaning "citadel" or possibly named for the daughter of the river god Pelasgos. Larissa Manoela — Brazilian actress.

Subject of countless Olympic-history retrospectives.

Citadel (Larisa Latynina, 9 Olympic gold gymnastics — most ever) — a Russian name.

The name in its native script.

Лариса
Transliteration
Larisa
Pronunciation
/ ləˈriː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Larisa stands.

Larisa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Larisas before her.

Real people
Larisa Latynina
Soviet Olympic gymnast.
born 1934
In fiction
Larisa
Various Slavic literature.

Names connected to Larisa.

The number behind Larisa.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Larisa reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.