Alessa

#1,872 for girls in 2025, 105 births

Peak · girls
2016 · 174 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,005
since 1970

Alessa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alessa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #1,358, 2016girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,872105
2024#1,681121
2023#1,581133
2022#1,395164
2021#1,562134
2020#1,398156
2019#1,642129
2018#1,425155
2017#1,534143
2016#1,358174
2015#1,643130
2014#1,643130
2013#1,689124
2012#2,49573
2011#2,02696
2010#2,42777
2009#1,956106
2008#1,740127
2007#1,784120
2006#2,60269
2005#3,50942
2004#4,49230
2003#3,59039
2002#3,65436
2001#3,14244
2000#4,40027
1999#5,21920
1998#4,95521
1997#3,89728
1996#5,28018
1995#4,51822
1994#5,71316
1993#3,87727
1992#5,71816
1991#5,65916
1990#6,13114
1989#5,83614
1988#5,32115
1987#4,85716
1986#6,61210
1985#6,45710
1984#4,96614
1983#4,10918
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five girls were named Alessa! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Alessa is popular in 1983

No state had 5 or more girls named Alessa in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alessa
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 191 spots since 2024 (#1,681 → #1,872)
  • 474 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,872)
  • 229 spots since 2015 (#1,643 → #1,872)
Rise & fade · girls
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2016 at #1,358 (174 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,001
  • Highest: 1 in 10,001 girls born in 2022 were named Alessa (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 15,307 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,358 in 2016, was only 1 in 10,184 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 41.0% of all girls named Alessa (1,231) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s20#7,995 (1970)#8,668
1980s103#4,109 (1983)#5,907
1990s198#3,877 (1993)#5,097
2000s640#1,740 (2008)#3,087
2010s1,231#1,358 (2016)#1,788
2020s813#1,395 (2022)#1,582

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alessa in 1983

girls
#4,109
18 births · 1 in 92,812 girls

Top girls' names in 1983

  1. #1Jennifer54,353
  2. #2Jessica45,283
  3. #3Amanda33,749
  4. #4Ashley33,289
  5. #5Sarah27,228
  6. #6Melissa23,475
  7. #7Nicole22,400
  8. #8Stephanie22,329
  9. #9Heather20,747
  10. #10Elizabeth19,842
  11. #4,109Alessa18
More about 1983

girls

1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 92,812 of them was named Alessa, which outranked 66.0% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alessa
  1. #3,949Vernell19
  2. #3,949Young19
  3. #3,949Zipporah19
  4. #4,109Alessa18
  5. #4,109Aishah18
  6. #4,109Aleesha18
  7. #4,109Aline18
  8. #4,286Alane17
  9. #4,286Aleksandra17
  10. #4,286Allana17

Tied with 176 names at #4,109; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,772Ciji#7,469 → #697
  2. ↑ 6,751Kirby#7,469 → #718
  3. ↑ 2,656Dwan#3,530 → #874
  4. ↑ 1,888Mallory#2,220 → #332
  5. ↑ 987Marquita#1,099 → #112
Fallers
  1. ↓ 656Syreeta#717 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 572Jenilee#817 → #1,389
  3. ↓ 538Tenika#947 → #1,485
  4. ↓ 396Toccara#541 → #937
  5. ↓ 333Venus#950 → #1,283

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1983 →