Elyssa — #3230 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Elyssa

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,246 babies named Elyssa between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elyssa currently holds the #3230 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 273 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elyssa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,418 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Elyssa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,072 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Elyssa in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elyssa 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 7,246 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.