Lissa
Lissa was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,649 among girls’ names; 3,979 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,560 Americans named Lissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 39 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lissa?
#8,649 among girls’ names, 2025
Lissa rose from #9,883 in 2015 to #8,649 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
122 babies in 1963, the peak
Lissa peaked in 1963, when 122 girls were given it, #960 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,649 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,808 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,028 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,310 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,297 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,718 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,974 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,275 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,108 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,408 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,883 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,303 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,848 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,924 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,298 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,561 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,548 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,293 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,218 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,023 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,924 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,656 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,070 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,588 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,100 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,397 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,407 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,879 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,602 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,191 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,325 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,911 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,789 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,066 | 20.6 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,756 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,834 | 41.1 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,970 | 35.3 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,384 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,052 | 31.1 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,876 | 35.0 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,720 | 38.9 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,914 | 32.7 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,980 | 31.1 |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,695 | 39.6 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,760 | 38.4 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,697 | 40.4 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,563 | 46.1 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,697 | 40.5 |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,767 | 37.8 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,613 | 42.3 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,863 | 33.6 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,606 | 40.2 |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,393 | 48.7 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,270 | 53.2 |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,259 | 52.9 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,253 | 50.9 |
| 1969 | 83 | #1,229 | 49.2 |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,087 | 58.5 |
| 1967 | 69 | #1,317 | 41.8 |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,149 | 50.8 |
| 1965 | 88 | #1,132 | 49.9 |
| 1964 | 112 | #1,019 | 59.1 |
| 1963 | 122 | #960 | 63.3 |
| 1962 | 102 | #1,071 | 51.9 |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,018 | 56.5 |
| 1960 | 117 | #995 | 57.9 |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,070 | 49.4 |
| 1958 | 116 | #957 | 57.7 |
| 1957 | 82 | #1,171 | 40.1 |
| 1956 | 81 | #1,152 | 40.3 |
| 1955 | 72 | #1,177 | 36.8 |
| 1954 | 81 | #1,096 | 41.7 |
| 1953 | 65 | #1,202 | 34.6 |
| 1952 | 72 | #1,111 | 38.8 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,351 | 26.7 |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,386 | 25.7 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,647 | 19.3 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,533 | 21.8 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,118 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,816 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,942 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,263 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,169 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,595 | 5.9 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,316 | 7.5 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,369 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lissa, and how old are they?
3,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 3,979 Americans ever recorded as Lissa. The median Lissa alive today is 54 years old; half are between 39 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 4,260 people named Lissa (4,243 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,160 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 308 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 162 |
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 Lissa born?
The states with the most babies named Lissa are California, Texas and New York, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 476 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 232 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 229 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 101 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 84 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 63 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lissa is most over-represented in California: since 1923 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Lissa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lissa?
Lissa is a less common spelling of Lisa: SSA has recorded 3,979 Lissa and 970,012 Lisa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 980,790 babies since 1880, Lissa is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 268 babies (4.5%), again the second most given.
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 Lissa
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 Lissa and names like it
- Compare Lissa and LisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLissa peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Lissa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lissa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.