Girl name origins & meanings:
- Latin : Laughing one
Girl name variations
- Risa,
Family name origins & meanings:
- English : topographic name from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’, or a habitational name from Rise in East Yorkshire, named with this word.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of over twenty farmsteads named Rise, from Old Norse hrís ‘brushwood’. The name also occurs in Sweden and Denmark.