Lyssa
Lyssa was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,492 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Lyssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lyssa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lyssa is “a female given name.”
Shortened form of Alyssa.
/ˈlɪsə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lyssa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,931, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
80 babies in 1992, the peak
Lyssa peaked in 1992, when 80 girls were given it, #1,807 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,931 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,770 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,292 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,983 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,086 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,423 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,202 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,278 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,314 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,604 | 9.1 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 22 | #6,030 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,201 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,544 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,458 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,060 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,321 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,477 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,045 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,672 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,268 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,702 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,274 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,558 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,847 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,054 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,408 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,268 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,629 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,139 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,427 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,807 | 43.4 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,468 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,715 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,742 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,385 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,931 | 33.9 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,065 | 30.3 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,701 | 39.5 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,169 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,044 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,400 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,143 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,803 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,981 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,165 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,552 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,790 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,612 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,345 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,060 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,430 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,710 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,972 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,900 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,655 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,489 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,715 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,107 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,269 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,748 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,287 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,631 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,828 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,966 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,213 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,806 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,117 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,581 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,502 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,418 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,071 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,704 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,068 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lyssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyssa, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,492 Americans ever recorded as Lyssa. The median Lyssa alive today is 34 years old; half are between 24 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,556 people named Lyssa (1,554 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,431 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 84 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 154 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 666 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 425 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 107 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 977,356 babies since 1880, Lyssa is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 274 babies recorded by SSA was a Lyssa (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 Lyssa
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 Lyssa and names like it
- Compare Lyssa and LisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLyssa peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Lyssa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lyssa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.