Meaning not yet researched.
Lissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #958 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #958 in 1958; #8,651 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,651 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #958.
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Lissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #958 in 1958 · most girls in one year: 122 (1963).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Lissa, making it the 8,651st most common girls’ name of the year, down 838 places from #7,813 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 girls named Lissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #958, reached in 1958. The most girls given the name in a single year was 122, in 1963. For comparison, it was #9,888 in 2015 and #1,387 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lissa in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 5 babies. In all, 3,979 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 989 babies named Lissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US girls were named Lissa; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880), Lyssa (1,492 babies since 1880), Liza (17,655 babies since 1880) and Lesa (11,421 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 Lissa in the open dataset we use.
Lissa is listed as a nickname for Elysia, Melissa.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,651 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,813 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,033 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,315 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,302 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,723 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,978 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,279 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,112 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,413 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,888 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,308 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,853 | — | — |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,928 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,302 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,565 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,551 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,297 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,222 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,025 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,929 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,661 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,075 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,592 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,404 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,882 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,196 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1969 | 83 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1967 | 69 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1965 | 88 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1964 | 112 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1963 | 122 | #960 | — | — |
| 1962 | 102 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1960 | 117 | #996 | — | — |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1958 | 116 | #958 | — | — |
| 1957 | 82 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1956 | 81 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1955 | 72 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1954 | 81 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1953 | 65 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1952 | 72 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,944 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,264 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,370 | — | — |
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).