Alessa
#1,872 for girls in 2025, 105 births
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 174 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,005since 1970
Alessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Alessa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,872 | 105 |
| 2024 | #1,681 | 121 |
| 2023 | #1,581 | 133 |
| 2022 | #1,395 | 164 |
| 2021 | #1,562 | 134 |
| 2020 | #1,398 | 156 |
| 2019 | #1,642 | 129 |
| 2018 | #1,425 | 155 |
| 2017 | #1,534 | 143 |
| 2016 | #1,358 | 174 |
| 2015 | #1,643 | 130 |
| 2014 | #1,643 | 130 |
| 2013 | #1,689 | 124 |
| 2012 | #2,495 | 73 |
| 2011 | #2,026 | 96 |
| 2010 | #2,427 | 77 |
| 2009 | #1,956 | 106 |
| 2008 | #1,740 | 127 |
| 2007 | #1,784 | 120 |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#576 · 1 in 2,618
- Arizona#774 · 1 in 3,868
- New Jersey#940 · 1 in 5,225
- Washington#971 · 1 in 5,357
- Michigan#1,000 · 1 in 6,010
Best ever in a state: #452 in Arizona, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #576 | 9 | 1 in 2,618 |
| Arizona | #774 | 8 | 1 in 3,868 |
| New Jersey | #940 | 7 | 1 in 5,225 |
| Washington | #971 | 6 | 1 in 5,357 |
| Michigan | #1,000 | 7 | 1 in 6,010 |
| Indiana | #1,058 | 5 | 1 in 6,059 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 9 | 1 in 6,403 |
| California | #1,096 | 28 | 1 in 7,276 |
| Texas | #1,127 | 23 | 1 in 7,274 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,138 | 7 | 1 in 7,408 |
| Florida | #1,182 | 11 | 1 in 7,883 |
| Virginia | #1,200 | 5 | 1 in 7,428 |
| New York | #1,916 | 6 | 1 in 14,973 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alessa
- 191 spots since 2024 (#1,681 → #1,872)
- 474 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,872)
- 229 spots since 2015 (#1,643 → #1,872)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2016 at #1,358 (174 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 41.0% of all girls named Alessa (1,231) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 20 | #7,995 (1970) | #8,668 |
| 1980s | 103 | #4,109 (1983) | #5,907 |
| 1990s | 198 | #3,877 (1993) | #5,097 |
| 2000s | 640 | #1,740 (2008) | #3,087 |
| 2010s | 1,231 | #1,358 (2016) | #1,788 |
| 2020s | 813 | #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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,184 of them was named Alessa, which outranked 92.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,353Destinee175
- #1,353Harriet175
- #1,353Layan175
- #1,358Alessa174
- #1,358Ariadna174
- #1,358Emi174
- #1,358Evangelina174
- #1,365Imogen173
- #1,365Keziah173
- #1,365Malak173
Tied with 6 names at #1,358; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.