Meaning not yet researched.
Alessa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 105 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,358 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,358 in 2016; #1,872 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alessa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,872 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,358.
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Alessa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 105 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,358 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 174 (2016).
In 2025, 105 US girls were named Alessa, making it the 1,872nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 190 places from #1,682 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 121 girls named Alessa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,358, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #1,643 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alessa in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 3,005 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,231 babies named Alessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,414 US girls were named Alessa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 174. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,307 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alessa ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #821 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alyssa (315,038 babies since 1880), Alissa (38,622 babies since 1880), Alisa (34,727 babies since 1880) and Alysa (7,050 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alessa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 7 | #821 | — |
| California | 29 | #949 | #1,341 |
| Texas | 27 | #1,037 | #1,146 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,896 | #1,262 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 2023 | 133 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 2022 | 164 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 2019 | 129 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 2016 | 174 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 2015 | 130 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,656 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,225 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,963 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,287 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,880 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,725 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,669 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,135 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,844 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,623 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,468 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,123 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,310 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,096 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,351 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,009 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).