Bryssa
Bryssa was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 203 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryssa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,781, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2009, the peak
Bryssa peaked in 2009, when 16 girls were given it, #7,742 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,781 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,975 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,237 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,931 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,144 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,188 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,514 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,172 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,902 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,742 | 8.7 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #10,936 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,652 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,617 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,020 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,356 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,628 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,944 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,802 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,650 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,936 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,264 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,067 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bryssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bryssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryssa, and how old are they?
An estimated 201 Americans named Bryssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 163 people named Bryssa (163 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Bryssa?
Bryssa is a less common spelling of Brisa: SSA has recorded 203 Bryssa and 8,595 Brisa since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,492 babies since 1880, Bryssa is the fifth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 162 babies recorded by SSA was a Bryssa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Bryssa
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 Bryssa and names like it
- Compare Bryssa and BrisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBryssa peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryssa since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Bryssa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryssa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.