Ilissa
Ilissa was last recorded in 2002, when 7 babies were given it; 249 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ilissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,697, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1989, the peak
Ilissa peaked in 1989, when 22 girls were given it, #4,285 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #12,697 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,166 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,951 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,702 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,009 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,397 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,307 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,089 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,278 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,005 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 12 | #7,116 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,132 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,285 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,129 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,474 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,081 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,159 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,475 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,102 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,511 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,504 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,929 | 4.6 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,916 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,603 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,917 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,451 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,300 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 241 Americans named Ilissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 33 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 293 people named Ilissa (293 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 243 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,127 babies since 1880, Ilissa is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 none of their 22 babies recorded by SSA was a Ilissa (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 Ilissa
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 Ilissa and names like it
- Compare Ilissa and IlsaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sIlissa peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Ilissa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ilissa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with IMost given first.