Elyssa
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 265 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,272since 1954
Elyssa over time
Rank among girls' names. Elyssa has never cracked the top 800 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 | #4,987 | 26 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 |
| 2021 | #2,784 | 61 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 |
| 2019 | #2,538 | 69 |
| 2018 | #2,905 | 57 |
| 2017 | #2,018 | 97 |
| 2016 | #1,815 | 114 |
| 2015 | #1,919 | 105 |
| 2014 | #1,534 | 142 |
| 2013 | #1,599 | 134 |
| 2012 | #1,340 | 175 |
| 2011 | #1,324 | 176 |
| 2010 | #1,269 | 188 |
| 2009 | #1,211 | 206 |
| 2008 | #1,286 | 193 |
| 2007 | #1,064 | 246 |
| 2006 | #1,033 | 248 |
| 2005 | #992 | 246 |
| 2004 | #890 | 273 |
| 2003 | #921 | 257 |
| 2002 | #889 | 253 |
| 2001 | #920 | 244 |
| 2000 | #874 | 252 |
| 1999 | #874 | 246 |
| 1998 | #800 | 265 |
| 1997 | #843 | 244 |
| 1996 | #859 | 232 |
| 1995 | #1,004 | 186 |
| 1994 | #977 | 189 |
| 1993 | #981 | 189 |
| 1992 | #1,099 | 163 |
| 1991 | #981 | 191 |
| 1990 | #981 | 188 |
| 1989 | #1,037 | 165 |
| 1988 | #1,097 | 143 |
| 1987 | #1,249 | 113 |
| 1986 | #1,602 | 74 |
| 1985 | #1,536 | 79 |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 |
| 1983 | #2,398 | 39 |
| 1982 | #2,369 | 41 |
| 1981 | #1,912 | 56 |
| 1980 | #2,246 | 44 |
| 1979 | #1,977 | 52 |
| 1978 | #1,862 | 53 |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
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| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
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| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Elyssa! It came in at #5,148, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1956, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Elyssa is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#545 · 1 in 4,529
- New York#722 · 1 in 6,003
- Florida#756 · 1 in 6,629
- Pennsylvania#858 · 1 in 9,987
- Illinois#879 · 1 in 8,189
Best ever in a state: #242 in Hawaii, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #545 | 10 | 1 in 4,529 |
| New York | #722 | 19 | 1 in 6,003 |
| Florida | #756 | 11 | 1 in 6,629 |
| Pennsylvania | #858 | 7 | 1 in 9,987 |
| Illinois | #879 | 9 | 1 in 8,189 |
| Texas | #976 | 14 | 1 in 9,164 |
| California | #1,186 | 19 | 1 in 12,023 |
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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 Elyssa
- 1,762 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #4,987)
- 2,771 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #4,987)
- 3,068 spots since 2015 (#1,919 → #4,987)
- Biggest jump: 145 spots in 1996 (#1,004 → #859)
- Biggest drop: 118 spots in 1992 (#981 → #1,099)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 1998 at #800 (265 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1996–2005
- Highest: 1 in 6,668 girls born in 1998 were named Elyssa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Elyssa (2,418) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 13 | #4,918 (1957) | #5,033 |
| 1960s | 116 | #2,868 (1967) | #4,209 |
| 1970s | 266 | #1,862 (1978) | #3,248 |
| 1980s | 796 | #1,037 (1989) | #1,775 |
| 1990s | 2,093 | #800 (1998) | #940 |
| 2000s | 2,418 | #874 (2000) | #1,008 |
| 2010s | 1,257 | #1,269 (2010) | #1,826 |
| 2020s | 313 | #2,216 (2020) | #3,322 |
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.
Elyssa in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 12,454 of them was named Elyssa, which outranked 92.1% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).