Alyssah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Alyssah

The Social Security Administration has registered 696 babies named Alyssah between 1993 and 2023, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alyssah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 44 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alyssah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 343 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Alyssah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 89 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Alyssah in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alyssah 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 696 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.