Alissa
#1,942 for girls in 2025, 99 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 1,090 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 38,591since 1948
Alissa over time
Rank among girls' names. Alissa 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 | #1,942 | 99 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,553 | 137 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,681 | 123 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,648 | 128 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,441 | 149 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,418 | 154 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,446 | 153 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,186 | 202 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,114 | 226 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,132 | 224 | — | |
| 2015 | #937 | 289 | — | |
| 2014 | #855 | 322 | — | |
| 2013 | #727 | 377 | — | |
| 2012 | #676 | 416 | — | |
| 2011 | #607 | 474 | — | |
| 2010 | #512 | 585 | — | |
| 2009 | #452 | 691 | — | |
| 2008 | #432 | 731 | — | |
| 2007 | #332 | 1,011 | — | |
| 2006 | #376 | 859 | — | |
| 2005 | #368 | 849 | — | |
| 2004 | #333 | 955 | — | |
| 2003 | #293 | 1,062 | — | |
| 2002 | #301 | 1,034 | — | |
| 2001 | #284 | 1,096 | — | |
| 2000 | #279 | 1,156 | — | |
| 1999 | #279 | 1,121 | — | |
| 1998 | #251 | 1,231 | — | |
| 1997 | #243 | 1,223 | — | |
| 1996 | #268 | 1,073 | — | |
| 1995 | #276 | 999 | — | |
| 1994 | #260 | 1,078 | — | |
| 1993 | #255 | 1,086 | — | |
| 1992 | #273 | 1,035 | — | |
| 1991 | #292 | 959 | — | |
| 1990 | #277 | 998 | — | |
| 1989 | #290 | 897 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #318 | 780 | — | |
| 1987 | #323 | 753 | — | |
| 1986 | #295 | 828 | — | |
| 1985 | #298 | 823 | — | |
| 1984 | #297 | 797 | — | |
| 1983 | #309 | 744 | — | |
| 1982 | #311 | 789 | — | |
| 1981 | #286 | 848 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #266 | 944 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #236 | 1,090 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #388 | 536 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #408 | 506 | — | |
| 1976 | #466 | 406 | — | |
| 1975 | #482 | 381 | — | |
| 1974 | #510 | 340 | — | |
| 1973 | #481 | 372 | — | |
| 1972 | #552 | 301 | — | |
| 1971 | #544 | 331 | — | |
| 1970 | #529 | 358 | — | |
| 1969 | #598 | 276 | — | |
| 1968 | #629 | 235 | — | |
| 1967 | #701 | 195 | — | |
| 1966 | #874 | 131 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,089 | 92 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,145 | 92 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,218 | 81 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,690 | 45 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,533 | 54 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,695 | 44 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,617 | 45 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,657 | 42 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,321 | 23 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,378 | 21 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,201 | 12 | — | |
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| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alissa! It came in at #3,593, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alissa is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#133 · 1 in 690
- Wisconsin#135 · 1 in 751
- Idaho#146 · 1 in 642
- West Virginia#146 · 1 in 733
- Iowa#164 · 1 in 933
Best ever in a state: #80 in North Dakota, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #133 | 41 | 1 in 690 |
| Wisconsin | #135 | 39 | 1 in 751 |
| Idaho | #146 | 8 | 1 in 642 |
| West Virginia | #146 | 12 | 1 in 733 |
| Iowa | #164 | 17 | 1 in 933 |
| South Dakota | #169 | 5 | 1 in 734 |
| Nebraska | #179 | 10 | 1 in 912 |
| Utah | #185 | 16 | 1 in 840 |
| Indiana | #198 | 28 | 1 in 1,226 |
| Connecticut | #205 | 15 | 1 in 1,275 |
| New Jersey | #211 | 36 | 1 in 1,333 |
| Michigan | #213 | 45 | 1 in 1,343 |
| Pennsylvania | #217 | 50 | 1 in 1,437 |
| Massachusetts | #225 | 27 | 1 in 1,426 |
| Arizona | #226 | 21 | 1 in 1,211 |
| Colorado | #235 | 16 | 1 in 1,286 |
| Illinois | #240 | 52 | 1 in 1,486 |
| Nevada | #255 | 5 | 1 in 1,229 |
| Ohio | #255 | 41 | 1 in 1,704 |
| New York | #256 | 75 | 1 in 1,584 |
| Oregon | #256 | 11 | 1 in 1,461 |
| Hawaii | #269 | 5 | 1 in 1,010 |
| Oklahoma | #270 | 11 | 1 in 1,568 |
| Washington | #275 | 19 | 1 in 1,552 |
| Arkansas | #323 | 6 | 1 in 2,082 |
| Missouri | #324 | 14 | 1 in 2,324 |
| Kansas | #331 | 7 | 1 in 2,018 |
| California | #395 | 105 | 1 in 2,324 |
| Georgia | #400 | 15 | 1 in 2,790 |
| Kentucky | #437 | 6 | 1 in 3,548 |
| Florida | #446 | 24 | 1 in 3,209 |
| Texas | #455 | 45 | 1 in 2,964 |
| North Carolina | #473 | 11 | 1 in 3,699 |
| Maryland | #511 | 7 | 1 in 3,958 |
| Virginia | #561 | 8 | 1 in 4,638 |
| Tennessee | #581 | 6 | 1 in 4,965 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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 Alissa
- 389 spots since 2024 (#1,553 → #1,942)
- 524 spots since 2020 (#1,418 → #1,942)
- 1,005 spots since 2015 (#937 → #1,942)
- Biggest jump: 215 spots in 1966 (#1,089 → #874)
- Biggest drop: 195 spots in 2016 (#937 → #1,132)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1979 at #236 (1,090 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 32 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 50 yrs · run 1966–2015
- Highest: 1 in 1,423 girls born in 1997 were named Alissa (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,235 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #236 in 1979, was only 1 in 1,473 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all girls named Alissa (10,803) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 14 | #3,593 (1948) | #4,419 |
| 1950s | 203 | #1,617 (1959) | #2,590 |
| 1960s | 1,245 | #598 (1969) | #1,117 |
| 1970s | 4,621 | #236 (1979) | #460 |
| 1980s | 8,203 | #266 (1980) | #299 |
| 1990s | 10,803 | #243 (1997) | #267 |
| 2000s | 9,444 | #279 (2000) | #345 |
| 2010s | 3,268 | #512 (2010) | #919 |
| 2020s | 790 | #1,418 (2020) | #1,614 |
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.
Alissa in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 2,055 of them was named Alissa, which outranked 98.0% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 333,488 of them was named Alissa, which outranked 24.8% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,229Zekiel7
- #6,229Zubin7
- #6,229Zvi7
- #6,941Alissa6
- #6,941Aaran6
- #6,941Abayomi6
- #6,941Abrham6
- #7,905Aakeem5
- #7,905Aaric5
- #7,905Aaronmichael5
Tied with 963 names at #6,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.