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 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#186 · 1 in 489
- Kentucky#258 · 1 in 1,190
- Louisiana#274 · 1 in 1,190
- Alabama#290 · 1 in 1,234
- Ohio#321 · 1 in 1,709
Best ever in a state: #80 in North Dakota, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #186 | 5 | 1 in 489 |
| Kentucky | #258 | 17 | 1 in 1,190 |
| Louisiana | #274 | 17 | 1 in 1,190 |
| Alabama | #290 | 17 | 1 in 1,234 |
| Ohio | #321 | 33 | 1 in 1,709 |
| Michigan | #324 | 28 | 1 in 1,588 |
| West Virginia | #333 | 5 | 1 in 1,377 |
| Tennessee | #336 | 21 | 1 in 1,533 |
| Kansas | #339 | 10 | 1 in 1,383 |
| Wisconsin | #351 | 15 | 1 in 1,670 |
| Missouri | #355 | 17 | 1 in 1,731 |
| South Carolina | #370 | 12 | 1 in 1,600 |
| Arkansas | #372 | 8 | 1 in 1,528 |
| Oklahoma | #372 | 11 | 1 in 1,586 |
| Iowa | #376 | 8 | 1 in 1,691 |
| Idaho | #381 | 5 | 1 in 1,474 |
| New Mexico | #392 | 6 | 1 in 1,410 |
| Arizona | #393 | 21 | 1 in 1,738 |
| North Carolina | #395 | 26 | 1 in 1,849 |
| Oregon | #402 | 10 | 1 in 1,659 |
| California | #404 | 108 | 1 in 2,124 |
| Mississippi | #436 | 7 | 1 in 1,783 |
| Minnesota | #441 | 12 | 1 in 2,146 |
| Texas | #445 | 74 | 1 in 2,266 |
| Virginia | #455 | 17 | 1 in 2,213 |
| Florida | #460 | 35 | 1 in 2,459 |
| New York | #476 | 40 | 1 in 2,388 |
| Illinois | #485 | 27 | 1 in 2,453 |
| Nevada | #498 | 6 | 1 in 2,028 |
| Utah | #524 | 8 | 1 in 2,472 |
| Georgia | #545 | 20 | 1 in 2,641 |
| Massachusetts | #547 | 9 | 1 in 3,025 |
| Washington | #646 | 10 | 1 in 3,215 |
| Colorado | #650 | 8 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Pennsylvania | #664 | 14 | 1 in 3,953 |
| Indiana | #671 | 9 | 1 in 3,612 |
| Maryland | #777 | 6 | 1 in 4,212 |
| New Jersey | #836 | 8 | 1 in 4,911 |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
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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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 2,587 of them was named Alissa, which outranked 97.9% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).