Alisa
#1,652 for girls in 2025, 125 births · Last seen for boys in 1979 at #4,842
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1969 · 1,108 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 34,705since 1945
Alisa over time
Rank among girls' names. Alisa has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,652 | 125 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,441 | 153 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,377 | 163 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,362 | 171 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,236 | 190 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,227 | 186 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,158 | 207 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,039 | 248 | — | |
| 2017 | #990 | 262 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,022 | 259 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,034 | 258 | — | |
| 2014 | #944 | 286 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,046 | 236 | — | |
| 2012 | #972 | 261 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,012 | 247 | — | |
| 2010 | #931 | 278 | — | |
| 2009 | #938 | 285 | — | |
| 2008 | #872 | 320 | — | |
| 2007 | #868 | 321 | — | |
| 2006 | #887 | 300 | — | |
| 2005 | #752 | 356 | — | |
| 2004 | #701 | 382 | — | |
| 2003 | #699 | 374 | — | |
| 2002 | #630 | 404 | — | |
| 2001 | #656 | 384 | — | |
| 2000 | #611 | 415 | — | |
| 1999 | #590 | 415 | — | |
| 1998 | #580 | 418 | — | |
| 1997 | #592 | 387 | — | |
| 1996 | #562 | 415 | — | |
| 1995 | #557 | 419 | — | |
| 1994 | #543 | 449 | — | |
| 1993 | #571 | 417 | — | |
| 1992 | #513 | 465 | — | |
| 1991 | #481 | 507 | — | |
| 1990 | #459 | 533 | — | |
| 1989 | #451 | 538 | — | |
| 1988 | #458 | 489 | — | |
| 1987 | #451 | 490 | — | |
| 1986 | #443 | 487 | — | |
| 1985 | #445 | 492 | — | |
| 1984 | #416 | 510 | — | |
| 1983 | #426 | 508 | — | |
| 1982 | #428 | 512 | — | |
| 1981 | #396 | 570 | — | |
| 1980 | #374 | 621 | — | |
| 1979 | #313 | 762 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #370 | 575 | — | |
| 1977 | #346 | 641 | — | |
| 1976 | #357 | 587 | — | |
| 1975 | #361 | 576 | — | |
| 1974 | #331 | 667 | — | |
| 1973 | #299 | 787 | — | |
| 1972 | #310 | 775 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #271 | 1,063 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #265 | 1,153 | — | |
| 1969 | #261 | 1,108 | — | |
| 1968 | #271 | 999 | — | |
| 1967 | #278 | 921 | — | |
| 1966 | #291 | 862 | — | |
| 1965 | #288 | 924 | — | |
| 1964 | #333 | 820 | — | |
| 1963 | #303 | 934 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #364 | 667 | — | |
| 1961 | #391 | 602 | — | |
| 1960 | #395 | 584 | — | |
| 1959 | #431 | 491 | — | |
| 1958 | #462 | 419 | — | |
| 1957 | #599 | 264 | — | |
| 1956 | #613 | 243 | — | |
| 1955 | #688 | 185 | — | |
| 1954 | #802 | 137 | — | |
| 1953 | #948 | 99 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,216 | 61 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,921 | 26 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alisa! It came in at #4,025, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1948, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Alisa is popular in 1951
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,043 · 1 in 29,943
Best ever in a state: #117 in District of Columbia, 1970.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,043 | 5 | 1 in 29,943 |
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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 Alisa
- 211 spots since 2024 (#1,441 → #1,652)
- 425 spots since 2020 (#1,227 → #1,652)
- 618 spots since 2015 (#1,034 → #1,652)
- Biggest jump: 268 spots in 1953 (#1,216 → #948)
- Biggest drop: 135 spots in 2006 (#752 → #887)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1969 at #261 (1,108 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 61 yrs · run 1953–2010
- Highest: 1 in 1,516 girls born in 1970 were named Alisa (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,858 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #261 in 1969, was only 1 in 1,523 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all girls named Alisa (8,421) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 44 | #2,850 (1949) | #3,626 |
| 1950s | 1,941 | #431 (1959) | #1,022 |
| 1960s | 8,421 | #261 (1969) | #318 |
| 1970s | 7,586 | #265 (1970) | #322 |
| 1980s | 5,217 | #374 (1980) | #429 |
| 1990s | 4,425 | #459 (1990) | #545 |
| 2000s | 3,541 | #611 (2000) | #761 |
| 2010s | 2,542 | #931 (2010) | #1,015 |
| 2020s | 988 | #1,227 (2020) | #1,383 |
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.
Alisa in 1951
Top girls' names in 1951
More about 1951
girls
1,800,859 girls got a published name in 1951; 1 in 69,264 of them was named Alisa, which outranked 69.1% of the 6,213 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,885Teddie27
- #1,885Tobi27
- #1,885Vernie27
- #1,921Alisa26
- #1,921Alethia26
- #1,921Arlena26
- #1,921Berlinda26
- #1,968Adria25
- #1,968Arletha25
- #1,968Carola25
Tied with 46 names at #1,921; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.