Alissa — #1556 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 38,490 babies named Alissa between 1948 and 2024, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alissa currently holds the #1556 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 1,231 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 10,803 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Alissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,975 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Alissa in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alissa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 38,490 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.