Meaning not yet researched.
Alisa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 125 in 2025. Its best rank was #261 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #261 in 1969; #1,654 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alisa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,654 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #261.
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Alisa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 125 girls in 2025. Peak: #261 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 1,153 (1970).
In 2025, 125 US girls were named Alisa, making it the 1,654th most common girls’ name of the year, down 213 places from #1,441 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 153 girls named Alisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #261, reached in 1969. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,153, in 1970. For comparison, it was #1,034 in 2015 and #2,537 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alisa in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 6 babies. In all, 34,727 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 8,426 babies named Alisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,964 US girls were named Alisa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 262. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,858 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alisa ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #880 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alice (590,106 babies since 1880), Alicia (231,497 babies since 1880), Elisa (47,804 babies since 1880) and Alissa (38,622 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alizay, Alaiza and Aleiza are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alizay (1,068), Alaiza (311), Aleiza (93), Aleza (67), Alaza (21), Alisaie (7), Alizai (5).
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 Alisa 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #880 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,043 | — |
| California | 25 | #1,054 | #591 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,058 | #569 |
| New York | 13 | #1,090 | #736 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,116 | #1,240 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,278 | #1,286 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,422 | #1,061 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,449 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,934 | #1,467 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 2024 | 153 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 2022 | 171 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 2020 | 186 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 2019 | 207 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2018 | 248 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 2017 | 262 | #990 | — | — |
| 2016 | 259 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 2015 | 258 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2014 | 286 | #944 | — | — |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2012 | 261 | #972 | — | — |
| 2011 | 247 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2010 | 278 | #931 | — | — |
| 2009 | 285 | #938 | — | — |
| 2008 | 320 | #873 | — | — |
| 2007 | 321 | #868 | — | — |
| 2006 | 300 | #887 | — | — |
| 2005 | 356 | #752 | — | — |
| 2004 | 382 | #701 | — | — |
| 2003 | 374 | #699 | — | — |
| 2002 | 404 | #630 | — | — |
| 2001 | 384 | #656 | — | — |
| 2000 | 415 | #611 | — | — |
| 1999 | 415 | #590 | — | — |
| 1998 | 418 | #580 | — | — |
| 1997 | 387 | #592 | — | — |
| 1996 | 415 | #562 | — | — |
| 1995 | 419 | #557 | — | — |
| 1994 | 449 | #543 | — | — |
| 1993 | 417 | #571 | — | — |
| 1992 | 465 | #513 | — | — |
| 1991 | 507 | #481 | — | — |
| 1990 | 533 | #459 | — | — |
| 1989 | 538 | #451 | — | — |
| 1988 | 489 | #458 | — | — |
| 1987 | 490 | #451 | — | — |
| 1986 | 487 | #443 | — | — |
| 1985 | 492 | #445 | — | — |
| 1984 | 510 | #416 | — | — |
| 1983 | 508 | #426 | — | — |
| 1982 | 512 | #428 | — | — |
| 1981 | 570 | #396 | — | — |
| 1980 | 621 | #374 | — | — |
| 1979 | 762 | #313 | 7 | #4,861 |
| 1978 | 575 | #370 | — | — |
| 1977 | 641 | #346 | — | — |
| 1976 | 587 | #357 | — | — |
| 1975 | 576 | #361 | — | — |
| 1974 | 667 | #331 | — | — |
| 1973 | 787 | #299 | — | — |
| 1972 | 775 | #310 | 5 | #5,004 |
| 1971 | 1,063 | #271 | 5 | #4,930 |
| 1970 | 1,153 | #265 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,108 | #261 | — | — |
| 1968 | 999 | #271 | — | — |
| 1967 | 921 | #278 | — | — |
| 1966 | 862 | #291 | — | — |
| 1965 | 924 | #288 | — | — |
| 1964 | 820 | #333 | — | — |
| 1963 | 934 | #303 | 5 | #4,058 |
| 1962 | 667 | #364 | — | — |
| 1961 | 602 | #391 | — | — |
| 1960 | 584 | #395 | — | — |
| 1959 | 491 | #431 | — | — |
| 1958 | 419 | #463 | — | — |
| 1957 | 264 | #599 | — | — |
| 1956 | 243 | #613 | — | — |
| 1955 | 185 | #688 | — | — |
| 1954 | 137 | #802 | — | — |
| 1953 | 99 | #949 | — | — |
| 1952 | 61 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,712 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,670 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,033 | — | — |
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).