Meaning not yet researched.
Alissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 99 in 2025. Its best rank was #236 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #236 in 1979; #1,942 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,942 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #236.
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Alissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 99 girls in 2025. Peak: #236 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 1,231 (1998).
In 2025, 99 US girls were named Alissa, making it the 1,942nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 389 places from #1,553 in 2024. That is 38 fewer than the 137 girls named Alissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #236, reached in 1979. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,231, in 1998. For comparison, it was #937 in 2015 and #2,538 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alissa in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 9 babies. In all, 38,622 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,803 babies named Alissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,595 US girls were named Alissa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 226. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,235 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alissa ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,048 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), Alisa (34,727 babies since 1880), Elissa (18,033 babies since 1880) and Allissa (2,054 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alisse, Alisah and Alizza 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alisse (232), Alisah (170), Alizza (91), Alieza (27), Ailisa (12), Aliyza (11), Aelisa (5), Aalisa (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 Alissa 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #1,048 | #1,100 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,061 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,224 | #928 |
| California | 16 | #1,411 | #706 |
| New York | 7 | #1,664 | #888 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,898 | #610 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 2024 | 137 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 2023 | 123 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 2020 | 154 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2019 | 153 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 2018 | 202 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2017 | 226 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2016 | 224 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 2015 | 289 | #937 | — | — |
| 2014 | 322 | #856 | — | — |
| 2013 | 377 | #727 | — | — |
| 2012 | 416 | #676 | — | — |
| 2011 | 474 | #607 | — | — |
| 2010 | 585 | #512 | — | — |
| 2009 | 691 | #452 | — | — |
| 2008 | 731 | #432 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,011 | #332 | — | — |
| 2006 | 859 | #376 | — | — |
| 2005 | 849 | #368 | — | — |
| 2004 | 955 | #333 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,062 | #293 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,034 | #301 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,096 | #284 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,156 | #279 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,121 | #279 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,231 | #251 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,223 | #243 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,073 | #268 | — | — |
| 1995 | 999 | #276 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,078 | #260 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,086 | #255 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,035 | #273 | — | — |
| 1991 | 959 | #292 | — | — |
| 1990 | 998 | #277 | — | — |
| 1989 | 897 | #290 | 6 | #6,970 |
| 1988 | 780 | #318 | — | — |
| 1987 | 753 | #323 | — | — |
| 1986 | 828 | #295 | — | — |
| 1985 | 823 | #298 | — | — |
| 1984 | 797 | #297 | — | — |
| 1983 | 744 | #309 | — | — |
| 1982 | 789 | #311 | — | — |
| 1981 | 848 | #286 | 6 | #5,492 |
| 1980 | 944 | #266 | 7 | #4,951 |
| 1979 | 1,090 | #236 | 5 | #6,083 |
| 1978 | 536 | #388 | 7 | #4,570 |
| 1977 | 506 | #408 | — | — |
| 1976 | 406 | #466 | — | — |
| 1975 | 381 | #482 | — | — |
| 1974 | 340 | #510 | — | — |
| 1973 | 372 | #481 | — | — |
| 1972 | 301 | #552 | — | — |
| 1971 | 331 | #544 | — | — |
| 1970 | 358 | #529 | — | — |
| 1969 | 276 | #598 | — | — |
| 1968 | 235 | #629 | — | — |
| 1967 | 195 | #701 | — | — |
| 1966 | 131 | #874 | — | — |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1964 | 92 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1963 | 81 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,257 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,595 | — | — |
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).