Allissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Allissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,054 babies named Allissa between 1969 and 2018, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Allissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 142 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Allissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 868 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Allissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 199 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Allissa in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Allissa 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 2,054 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.