Alyssia
Alyssia was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,551 among girls’ names; 4,929 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,850 Americans named Alyssia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alyssia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alyssia?
#4,551 among girls’ names, 2025
Alyssia fell from #3,434 in 2015 to #4,551 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 18.7 per million.
215 babies in 1998, the peak
Alyssia peaked in 1998, when 215 girls were given it, #951 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,551 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,024 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,873 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,831 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,838 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,267 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,551 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,566 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,966 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,741 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,434 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,844 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,486 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,654 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,841 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 137 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,639 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 151 | #1,531 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 154 | #1,504 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 168 | #1,366 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,451 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 174 | #1,248 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 166 | #1,256 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 137 | #1,404 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 197 | #1,075 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 169 | #1,180 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 204 | #1,005 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 215 | #951 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 198 | #984 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 202 | #949 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 149 | #1,160 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 168 | #1,072 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 150 | #1,169 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 152 | #1,154 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 157 | #1,125 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 178 | #1,015 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 170 | #1,006 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 132 | #1,156 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,497 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,170 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,361 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,427 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,469 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,951 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,629 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,329 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,339 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,226 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,158 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,529 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,467 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,199 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,116 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,140 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #5,989 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alyssia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alyssia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alyssia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alyssia, and how old are they?
4,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,929 Americans ever recorded as Alyssia. The median Alyssia alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 3,829 people named Alyssia (3,828 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 137 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 547 |
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 Alyssia born?
The states with the most babies named Alyssia are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 439 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 404 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 262 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 216 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 153 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 141 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 125 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 114 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 113 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Alyssia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alyssia is most over-represented in Florida: since 1969 it was given 1.1 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 Alyssia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Alyssia?
Alyssia is a less common spelling of Alicia: SSA has recorded 4,929 Alyssia and 231,497 Alicia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 624,357 babies since 1880, Alyssia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 2,487 babies (1.2%), the sixth 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 Alyssia
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 Alyssia and names like it
- Compare Alyssia and AliciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlyssia peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alyssia since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Alyssia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alyssia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.