Alessa
Alessa was given to 105 girls in 2025, #1,872 among girls’ names; 3,005 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,980 Americans named Alessa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alessa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alessa?
#1,872 among girls’ names, 2025
Alessa fell from #1,643 in 2015 to #1,872 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 72.8 to 65.3 per million.
174 babies in 2016, the peak
Alessa peaked in 2016, when 174 girls were given it, #1,358 among girls’ names. The 105 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,872 | 65.3 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,682 | 74.7 |
| 2023 | 133 | #1,581 | 82.9 |
| 2022 | 164 | #1,395 | 100.0 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,562 | 81.7 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,398 | 96.5 |
| 2019 | 129 | #1,642 | 76.9 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,425 | 91.1 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,534 | 82.8 |
| 2016 | 174 | #1,358 | 98.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,643 | 72.8 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,643 | 72.8 |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,690 | 70.7 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,496 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,027 | 54.6 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,429 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,957 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,741 | 67.2 |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,784 | 62.4 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,604 | 36.3 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,510 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,494 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,592 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,652 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,139 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,400 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,219 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,959 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,896 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,282 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,519 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,713 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,875 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,719 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,663 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,129 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,838 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,326 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,859 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,620 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,466 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,973 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,110 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,121 | 3.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,308 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,094 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,349 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,008 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alessa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alessa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alessa, and how old are they?
2,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,005 Americans ever recorded as Alessa. The median Alessa alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,987 people named Alessa (1,981 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,212 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 946 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,790 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alessa born?
The states with the most babies named Alessa are California, Texas and Arizona, with 91% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 29 | #949 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 27 | #1,037 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 7 | #821 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,896 | 1.3× |
Where Alessa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alessa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1970 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alessa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 425,663 babies since 1880, Alessa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 105 of their 2,015 babies (5.2%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alessa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alessa and names like it
- Compare Alessa and AlyssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlessa peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alessa since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Alessa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alessa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.