Malyssa
Malyssa was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 399 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malyssa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,095, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1993, the peak
Malyssa peaked in 1993, when 25 girls were given it, #4,182 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,095 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,258 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,698 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,221 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,821 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,976 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,026 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,649 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,804 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,335 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | #10,359 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,486 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,278 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,305 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,121 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,664 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,118 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,080 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,842 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,537 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,524 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,843 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,944 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,182 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,622 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,734 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,321 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,447 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,408 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,400 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,186 | 4.7 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,602 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malyssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malyssa, and how old are they?
An estimated 392 Americans named Malyssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 418 people named Malyssa (416 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Malyssa?
Malyssa is a less common spelling of Malissa: SSA has recorded 399 Malyssa and 8,866 Malissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,097 babies since 1880, Malyssa is the sixth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 286 babies recorded by SSA was a Malyssa (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 Malyssa
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 Malyssa and names like it
- Compare Malyssa and MalissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMalyssa peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Malyssa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Malyssa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.