Alyssa — #399 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alyssa

The Social Security Administration has registered 313,912 babies named Alyssa between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alyssa currently holds the #399 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 14,036 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alyssa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 115,254 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Alyssa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 45,484 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Alyssa in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alyssa 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 313,912 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.