Allisa
Allisa was last recorded in 2015, when 12 babies were given it; 1,340 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Allisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 25 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Allisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Allisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,973, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1998, the peak
Allisa peaked in 1998, when 56 girls were given it, #2,460 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #8,973 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,659 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,061 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,312 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,747 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,818 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,387 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,765 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,851 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,367 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 19 | #6,262 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,823 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,111 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,653 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,312 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,852 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,811 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,460 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,659 | 27.0 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,670 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,022 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,931 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,766 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,866 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,786 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,955 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,248 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 34 | #2,982 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,332 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,189 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,009 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,165 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,953 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,029 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,628 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,319 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,240 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,685 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,663 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,680 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,501 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,866 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,344 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,572 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,128 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,033 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,461 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,875 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,341 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,964 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,551 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,102 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,175 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,299 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,190 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Allisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Allisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Allisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Allisa, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,340 Americans ever recorded as Allisa. The median Allisa alive today is 33 years old; half are between 25 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,433 people named Allisa (1,426 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,308 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 38 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 495 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 499 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26 |
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).
How common is the spelling Allisa?
Allisa is a less common spelling of Alyssa: SSA has recorded 1,340 Allisa and 315,038 Alyssa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 411,064 babies since 1880, Allisa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 973 babies recorded by SSA was a Allisa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Allisa
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 Allisa and names like it
- Compare Allisa and AlyssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAllisa peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Allisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Allisa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Allisa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.