Kalyssa
Kalyssa was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,392 among girls’ names; 852 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalyssa?
#11,392 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalyssa fell from #6,339 in 2015 to #11,392 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 5.0 per million.
55 babies in 2007, the peak
Kalyssa peaked in 2007, when 55 girls were given it, #3,149 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,392 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,664 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,768 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,333 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,246 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,382 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,401 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,373 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,400 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,535 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,339 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,224 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,121 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,545 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,750 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,449 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,831 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,313 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,149 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,111 | 28.4 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,334 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,777 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,495 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,545 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,019 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,929 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,507 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,921 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,400 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,565 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,484 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,982 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,011 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,825 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,636 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,811 | 4.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,696 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,140 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalyssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalyssa, and how old are they?
An estimated 843 Americans named Kalyssa 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 648 people named Kalyssa (646 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 786 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,343 babies since 1880, Kalyssa is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 76 babies (11%), the fifth 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 Kalyssa
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 Kalyssa and names like it
- Compare Kalyssa and KalissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalyssa peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kalyssa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalyssa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.