Lissa
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1958 · 116 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,979since 1923
Lissa over time
Rank among girls' names. Lissa has never cracked the top 900 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 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 |
| 1991 | #2,738 | 43 |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 |
| 1989 | #1,965 | 65 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 |
| 1987 | #2,044 | 54 |
| 1986 | #1,866 | 60 |
| 1985 | #1,710 | 67 |
| 1984 | #1,905 | 55 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 |
| 1982 | #1,684 | 67 |
| 1981 | #1,754 | 64 |
| 1980 | #1,692 | 67 |
| 1979 | #1,555 | 74 |
| 1978 | #1,690 | 62 |
| 1977 | #1,761 | 58 |
| 1976 | #1,602 | 62 |
| 1975 | #1,854 | 49 |
| 1974 | #1,598 | 59 |
| 1973 | #1,388 | 71 |
| 1972 | #1,263 | 81 |
| 1971 | #1,253 | 88 |
| 1970 | #1,247 | 89 |
| 1969 | #1,226 | 83 |
| 1968 | #1,083 | 96 |
| 1967 | #1,316 | 69 |
| 1966 | #1,142 | 86 |
| 1965 | #1,129 | 88 |
| 1964 | #1,016 | 112 |
| 1963 | #959 | 122 |
| 1962 | #1,066 | 102 |
| 1961 | #1,014 | 114 |
| 1960 | #993 | 117 |
| 1959 | #1,066 | 100 |
| 1958 | #958 | 116 |
| 1957 | #1,170 | 82 |
| 1956 | #1,151 | 81 |
| 1955 | #1,175 | 72 |
| 1954 | #1,093 | 81 |
| 1953 | #1,199 | 65 |
| 1952 | #1,107 | 72 |
| 1951 | #1,339 | 48 |
| 1950 | #1,375 | 44 |
| 1949 | #1,627 | 33 |
| 1948 | #1,520 | 37 |
| 1947 | #2,089 | 22 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
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| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lissa! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1936, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lissa is popular in 1923
No state had 5 or more girls named Lissa in 1923, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Lissa
- 768 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,362)
- 44 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #8,362)
- 1,119 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 212 spots in 1958 (#1,170 → #958)
- Biggest drop: 108 spots in 1959 (#958 → #1,066)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 1958 at #958 (116 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1958–1963
- Highest: 1 in 15,799 girls born in 1963 were named Lissa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #958 in 1958, was only 1 in 17,342 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.9% of all girls named Lissa (989) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,967 (1923) | #4,967 |
| 1930s | 8 | #3,146 (1937) | #3,146 |
| 1940s | 137 | #1,520 (1948) | #2,769 |
| 1950s | 761 | #958 (1958) | #1,163 |
| 1960s | 989 | #959 (1963) | #1,094 |
| 1970s | 693 | #1,247 (1970) | #1,521 |
| 1980s | 597 | #1,684 (1982) | #1,895 |
| 1990s | 404 | #1,828 (1990) | #3,139 |
| 2000s | 180 | #5,009 (2001) | #6,693 |
| 2010s | 131 | #7,100 (2018) | #8,552 |
| 2020s | 74 | #7,594 (2024) | #8,339 |
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.
Lissa in 1923
Top girls' names in 1923
More about 1923
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1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 241,273 of them was named Lissa, which outranked 13.5% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 772 names at #4,967; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.