Allyssa
Allyssa was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,056 among girls’ names; 6,675 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,570 Americans named Allyssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Allyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Allyssa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Allyssa is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alyssa.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Allyssa?
#15,056 among girls’ names, 2025
Allyssa fell from #3,131 in 2015 to #15,056 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 3.1 per million.
349 babies in 1998, the peak
Allyssa peaked in 1998, when 349 girls were given it, #660 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,056 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,409 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,685 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,278 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,972 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,943 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,807 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,792 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,392 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,417 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,131 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,273 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,569 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 121 | #1,714 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,598 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 154 | #1,469 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 154 | #1,487 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 186 | #1,325 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 271 | #988 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 210 | #1,157 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 219 | #1,085 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,161 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 219 | #1,042 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 230 | #963 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 271 | #844 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 284 | #802 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 330 | #685 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 349 | #660 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 293 | #726 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 288 | #730 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 258 | #774 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 267 | #771 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 252 | #799 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 272 | #763 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 254 | #803 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 295 | #708 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 205 | #894 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 201 | #876 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,317 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,619 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,704 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,426 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,468 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,213 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,261 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,216 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,668 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,401 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,948 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,816 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,145 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,270 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,093 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,016 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Allyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Allyssa 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 Allyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Allyssa, and how old are they?
6,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,675 Americans ever recorded as Allyssa. The median Allyssa alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 5,955 people named Allyssa (5,946 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 123 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 356 |
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 Allyssa born?
The states with the most babies named Allyssa are California, Texas and New York, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 671 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 541 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 287 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 277 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 276 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 257 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 244 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 231 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 197 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 157 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Allyssa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Allyssa is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1971 it was given 1.4 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 Allyssa 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 390,295 babies since 1880, Allyssa is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,037 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Allyssa
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 Allyssa and names like it
- Compare Allyssa and AlyssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAllyssa peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Allyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Allyssa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Allyssa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.