Elissa
#1,844 for girls in 2025, 108 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 408 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,033since 1914
Elissa over time
Rank among girls' names. Elissa has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,844 | 108 |
| 2024 | #1,529 | 140 |
| 2023 | #1,465 | 150 |
| 2022 | #1,415 | 160 |
| 2021 | #1,347 | 164 |
| 2020 | #1,343 | 164 |
| 2019 | #1,133 | 213 |
| 2018 | #1,262 | 183 |
| 2017 | #1,387 | 166 |
| 2016 | #1,403 | 166 |
| 2015 | #1,394 | 169 |
| 2014 | #1,063 | 242 |
| 2013 | #1,056 | 235 |
| 2012 | #887 | 298 |
| 2011 | #1,096 | 224 |
| 2010 | #1,122 | 219 |
| 2009 | #1,211 | 206 |
| 2008 | #1,057 | 247 |
| 2007 | #1,145 | 224 |
| 2006 | #1,033 | 248 |
| 2005 | #910 | 274 |
| 2004 | #881 | 279 |
| 2003 | #851 | 284 |
| 2002 | #787 | 299 |
| 2001 | #784 | 302 |
| 2000 | #792 | 290 |
| 1999 | #737 | 305 |
| 1998 | #711 | 311 |
| 1997 | #717 | 300 |
| 1996 | #779 | 269 |
| 1995 | #714 | 290 |
| 1994 | #812 | 247 |
| 1993 | #760 | 272 |
| 1992 | #727 | 292 |
| 1991 | #705 | 300 |
| 1990 | #744 | 279 |
| 1989 | #624 | 339 |
| 1988 | #725 | 258 |
| 1987 | #632 | 302 |
| 1986 | #572 | 340 |
| 1985 | #622 | 302 |
| 1984 | #580 | 315 |
| 1983 | #539 | 348 |
| 1982 | #535 | 364 |
| 1981 | #534 | 352 |
| 1980 | #529 | 357 |
| 1979 | #496 | 408 |
| 1978 | #612 | 279 |
| 1977 | #618 | 271 |
| 1976 | #684 | 216 |
| 1975 | #692 | 216 |
| 1974 | #782 | 175 |
| 1973 | #658 | 226 |
| 1972 | #712 | 201 |
| 1971 | #709 | 215 |
| 1970 | #637 | 258 |
| 1969 | #757 | 177 |
| 1968 | #762 | 170 |
| 1967 | #802 | 155 |
| 1966 | #949 | 115 |
| 1965 | #1,025 | 103 |
| 1964 | #912 | 131 |
| 1963 | #808 | 165 |
| 1962 | #1,014 | 112 |
| 1961 | #993 | 119 |
| 1960 | #1,047 | 105 |
| 1959 | #950 | 122 |
| 1958 | #988 | 110 |
| 1957 | #1,072 | 94 |
| 1956 | #965 | 109 |
| 1955 | #804 | 144 |
| 1954 | #718 | 166 |
| 1953 | #708 | 167 |
| 1952 | #678 | 172 |
| 1951 | #840 | 113 |
| 1950 | #978 | 86 |
| 1949 | #791 | 119 |
| 1948 | #837 | 109 |
| 1947 | #942 | 88 |
| 1946 | #979 | 73 |
| 1945 | #1,048 | 55 |
| 1944 | #1,090 | 51 |
| 1943 | #996 | 63 |
| 1942 | #1,249 | 41 |
| 1941 | #1,151 | 42 |
| 1940 | #1,242 | 35 |
| 1939 | #1,102 | 42 |
| 1938 | #1,140 | 40 |
| 1937 | #1,180 | 37 |
| 1936 | #1,053 | 44 |
| 1935 | #884 | 61 |
| 1934 | #973 | 50 |
| 1933 | #923 | 54 |
| 1932 | #1,382 | 29 |
| 1931 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | #2,246 | 14 |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Elissa! It came in at #3,188, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Elissa is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#314 · 1 in 4,672
- Connecticut#343 · 1 in 3,834
- New York#387 · 1 in 3,713
- California#637 · 1 in 8,120
- Ohio#768 · 1 in 17,000
Best ever in a state: #162 in North Dakota, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #314 | 11 | 1 in 4,672 |
| Connecticut | #343 | 6 | 1 in 3,834 |
| New York | #387 | 44 | 1 in 3,713 |
| California | #637 | 18 | 1 in 8,120 |
| Ohio | #768 | 6 | 1 in 17,000 |
| Michigan | #815 | 5 | 1 in 17,899 |
| Pennsylvania | #870 | 5 | 1 in 22,554 |
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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 Elissa
- 315 spots since 2024 (#1,529 → #1,844)
- 501 spots since 2020 (#1,343 → #1,844)
- 450 spots since 2015 (#1,394 → #1,844)
- Biggest jump: 459 spots in 1933 (#1,382 → #923)
- Biggest drop: 187 spots in 1950 (#791 → #978)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1979 at #496 (408 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 36 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 61 yrs · run 1966–2005
- Highest: 1 in 3,934 girls born in 1979 were named Elissa (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,882 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 18.2% of all girls named Elissa (3,277) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 46 | #2,246 (1916) | #3,094 |
| 1920s | 37 | #2,899 (1920) | #3,944 |
| 1930s | 378 | #884 (1935) | #1,450 |
| 1940s | 676 | #791 (1949) | #1,033 |
| 1950s | 1,283 | #678 (1952) | #870 |
| 1960s | 1,352 | #757 (1969) | #907 |
| 1970s | 2,465 | #496 (1979) | #660 |
| 1980s | 3,277 | #529 (1980) | #589 |
| 1990s | 2,865 | #705 (1991) | #741 |
| 2000s | 2,653 | #784 (2001) | #945 |
| 2010s | 2,115 | #887 (2012) | #1,180 |
| 2020s | 886 | #1,343 (2020) | #1,491 |
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.
Elissa in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 13,578 of them was named Elissa, which outranked 88.1% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #797Mimi146
- #797Pamella146
- #803Sherie145
- #804Elissa144
- #804Cathey144
- #804Esperanza144
- #804Tricia144
- #809Freddie143
- #809Lorelei143
- #811Lauretta142
Tied with 4 names at #804; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.