Laryssa
Laryssa was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 1,239 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Laryssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laryssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laryssa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laryssa is “a female given name, variant of Larissa.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laryssa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,394, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1968, the peak
Laryssa peaked in 1968, when 67 girls were given it, #1,368 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,394 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,881 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,022 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,209 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,379 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,826 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,754 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,834 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,311 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,644 | 13.6 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21 | #6,299 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,752 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,138 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,887 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,524 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,999 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,046 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,915 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,266 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,391 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,426 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,675 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,742 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,327 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,695 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,817 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,268 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,192 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,541 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,957 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,926 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,212 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,838 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,198 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,882 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,528 | 7.6 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,646 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,203 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,112 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,789 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,520 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,103 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,075 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,399 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,856 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,998 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,368 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,203 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,692 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,706 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,876 | 13.0 |
| 1968 | 67 | #1,368 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laryssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laryssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laryssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laryssa, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,239 Americans ever recorded as Laryssa. The median Laryssa alive today is 29 years old; half are between 21 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,173 people named Laryssa (1,169 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 189 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 391 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 548 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 79 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Laryssa born?
The states with the most babies named Laryssa are California, Texas and Massachusetts, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 101 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Laryssa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,282 babies since 1880, Laryssa is the third most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 140 babies recorded by SSA was a Laryssa (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 Laryssa
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 Laryssa and names like it
- Compare Laryssa and LarissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLaryssa peaked in 1968.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laryssa since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Laryssa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laryssa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.