Meaning not yet researched.
Allyssa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #660 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #660 in 1998; #15,060 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Allyssa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,060 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #660.
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Allyssa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #660 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 349 (1998).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Allyssa, making it the 15,060th most common girls’ name of the year, up 354 places from #15,414 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 girls named Allyssa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #660, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 349. For comparison, it was #3,131 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Allyssa in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 8 babies. In all, 6,675 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,858 babies named Allyssa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 187 US girls were named Allyssa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alyssa (315,038 babies since 1880), Allissa (2,054 babies since 1880), Alissa (38,622 babies since 1880) and Alysa (7,050 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Ali, Allie and Ally.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,060 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,414 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,283 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,977 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,947 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,811 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,796 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,417 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 2012 | 121 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2010 | 154 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2009 | 154 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 2008 | 186 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 2007 | 271 | #988 | — | — |
| 2006 | 210 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2005 | 219 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 2003 | 219 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 2002 | 230 | #964 | — | — |
| 2001 | 271 | #844 | — | — |
| 2000 | 284 | #802 | — | — |
| 1999 | 330 | #686 | — | — |
| 1998 | 349 | #660 | — | — |
| 1997 | 293 | #726 | — | — |
| 1996 | 288 | #730 | — | — |
| 1995 | 258 | #775 | — | — |
| 1994 | 267 | #772 | — | — |
| 1993 | 252 | #800 | — | — |
| 1992 | 272 | #765 | — | — |
| 1991 | 254 | #805 | — | — |
| 1990 | 295 | #709 | — | — |
| 1989 | 205 | #897 | — | — |
| 1988 | 201 | #876 | — | — |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,469 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,215 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,262 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,402 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,949 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,147 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,271 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,095 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,314 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,018 | — | — |
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).