Aryssa — girls' name
652 babies named Aryssa in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Aryssa was born in this single decade.
58 babies were named Aryssa in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aryssa
The Social Security Administration has registered 652 babies named Aryssa between 1989 and 2021, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aryssa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 58 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aryssa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 350 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Aryssa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 83 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Aryssa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aryssa 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 652 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.
Aryssa at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aryssa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1989
- Peak year (2003)
- 58
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
652 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 58 births in a single year.
Aryssa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 350 births that decade — 54% of Aryssa's all-time total
Aryssa decade highlights
- Peak decade 350 births
- Runner-up 153 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Aryssa's strongest decade
350 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Aryssa by state
Where Aryssa concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 83 | 12.7% |
| #2 | California | | 64 | 9.8% |
83 of 652 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 12.7% of nationwide
- California 9.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 12.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.