Alyssa
Alyssa is ranked 399th among girls in 2024 (793 births). Its best rank was 11th, in 1998–1999.
- Rank in 2024
- #399down 65 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7930.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 199914,036 births
- Best rank
- #11first in 1998
- Since 1950
- 313,912people given the name
The story in the numbers
313,912 girls have been named Alyssa in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 14,036 births — 0.79% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 76 → 399).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 30 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alyssa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 99 | |
| 1960s | 1,504 | |
| 1970s | 6,080 | |
| 1980s | 32,952 | |
| 1990s | 115,254 | |
| 2000s | 114,505 | |
| 2010s | 37,926 | |
| 2020s | 5,592 |
In 1999, its biggest year
Alyssa was the 11th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Alyssa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Katelynpeak 1993
- Kaleypeak 2003
- Mercedezpeak 1993
- Estephaniepeak 2003
- Alyssiapeak 1998
- Shaylynpeak 1993
- Kaylepeak 2000
- Jasmynepeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.