Meaning not yet researched.
Alyssa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 680 in 2025. Its best rank was #11 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #11 in 1999; #453 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alyssa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#453 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #11.
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Alyssa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 680 girls in 2025. Peak: #11 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 14,036 (1999).
In 2025, 680 US girls were named Alyssa, making it the 453rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 54 places from #399 in 2024. That is 115 fewer than the 795 girls named Alyssa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #11, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 14,036. For comparison, it was #93 in 2015 and #5,319 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alyssa in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 315,038 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 115,390 babies named Alyssa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,781 US girls were named Alyssa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,680. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,364 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alyssa ranked highest in California in 2025, at #242 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alissa (38,622 babies since 1880), Elyssa (7,272 babies since 1880), Alysa (7,050 babies since 1880) and Allyssa (6,675 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Allisa, Alesa and Aleesa are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Al, Ally and Lissia.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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: Allisa (1,340), Alesa (926), Aleesa (752), Alyssah (696), Alyissa (482), Aleisa (410), Aylissa (288), Alyzza (270), Alysah (169), Aleyssa (157), Alissah (150), Alayssa (146), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 137 | #242 | #56 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #254 | #76 |
| Florida | 61 | #305 | #76 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #335 | #149 |
| Texas | 101 | #339 | #77 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #366 | #92 |
| New York | 44 | #389 | #90 |
| Kansas | 8 | #406 | #130 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #423 | #74 |
| Nevada | 6 | #439 | #91 |
| Indiana | 15 | #445 | #144 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #460 | #176 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #481 | #148 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #490 | #106 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #490 | #92 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #521 | #45 |
| Alabama | 9 | #523 | #80 |
| Virginia | 14 | #543 | #81 |
| Maryland | 9 | #552 | #107 |
| Georgia | 19 | #560 | #98 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #569 | #114 |
| Arizona | 11 | #581 | #99 |
| Illinois | 16 | #599 | #78 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #616 | #177 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #617 | #138 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #621 | #125 |
| Washington | 10 | #623 | #140 |
| Missouri | 8 | #642 | #101 |
| Michigan | 11 | #692 | #104 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #693 | #79 |
| Utah | 5 | #708 | #134 |
| Ohio | 10 | #882 | #120 |
| Colorado | 5 | #915 | #171 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 680 | #453 | — | — |
| 2024 | 795 | #399 | — | — |
| 2023 | 930 | #334 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,099 | #288 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,301 | #233 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,472 | #199 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,699 | #171 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,884 | #150 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,241 | #133 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,680 | #119 | — | — |
| 2015 | 3,255 | #93 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,849 | #76 | 8 | #8,826 |
| 2013 | 4,214 | #57 | 5 | #12,229 |
| 2012 | 5,091 | #44 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6,029 | #37 | 5 | #12,376 |
| 2010 | 6,993 | #21 | 7 | #9,733 |
| 2009 | 7,980 | #19 | 7 | #9,910 |
| 2008 | 9,653 | #16 | 14 | #6,086 |
| 2007 | 11,275 | #14 | 17 | #5,218 |
| 2006 | 10,177 | #19 | 9 | #8,021 |
| 2005 | 10,891 | #16 | 17 | #4,829 |
| 2004 | 12,109 | #14 | 45 | #2,455 |
| 2003 | 12,750 | #14 | 10 | #6,742 |
| 2002 | 12,847 | #12 | 19 | #4,191 |
| 2001 | 13,272 | #14 | 13 | #5,401 |
| 2000 | 13,553 | #12 | 15 | #4,794 |
| 1999 | 14,036 | #11 | 14 | #4,772 |
| 1998 | 13,709 | #11 | 9 | #6,342 |
| 1997 | 12,649 | #15 | 19 | #3,605 |
| 1996 | 11,024 | #23 | 10 | #5,548 |
| 1995 | 10,100 | #27 | 12 | #4,800 |
| 1994 | 10,602 | #26 | 8 | #6,402 |
| 1993 | 11,031 | #26 | 20 | #3,248 |
| 1992 | 10,163 | #30 | 11 | #4,885 |
| 1991 | 10,678 | #30 | 16 | #3,644 |
| 1990 | 11,263 | #27 | 16 | #3,615 |
| 1989 | 9,042 | #33 | 30 | #2,247 |
| 1988 | 7,135 | #47 | 22 | #2,602 |
| 1987 | 5,136 | #60 | 16 | #3,076 |
| 1986 | 3,225 | #85 | 10 | #4,142 |
| 1985 | 2,258 | #130 | 6 | #5,810 |
| 1984 | 1,538 | #180 | 11 | #3,712 |
| 1983 | 1,201 | #209 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,109 | #230 | — | — |
| 1981 | 1,128 | #228 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,180 | #217 | 5 | #6,288 |
| 1979 | 1,174 | #223 | 6 | #5,382 |
| 1978 | 801 | #290 | — | — |
| 1977 | 759 | #315 | — | — |
| 1976 | 681 | #327 | — | — |
| 1975 | 558 | #372 | — | — |
| 1974 | 467 | #419 | — | — |
| 1973 | 449 | #433 | — | — |
| 1972 | 344 | #504 | — | — |
| 1971 | 402 | #479 | — | — |
| 1970 | 444 | #467 | — | — |
| 1969 | 380 | #499 | — | — |
| 1968 | 199 | #687 | — | — |
| 1967 | 143 | #847 | — | — |
| 1966 | 137 | #857 | — | — |
| 1965 | 119 | #933 | — | — |
| 1964 | 118 | #977 | — | — |
| 1963 | 123 | #954 | — | — |
| 1962 | 86 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1961 | 87 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1960 | 111 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,497 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,667 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,319 | — | — |
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).