Elissa
Elissa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 140 births. Its best rank was 496th, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1400.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1979408 births
- Best rank
- #496in 1979
- Since 1914
- 17,924people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,924 girls have been named Elissa in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 408 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 18%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elissa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 46 | |
| 1920s | 37 | |
| 1930s | 378 | |
| 1940s | 676 | |
| 1950s | 1,283 | |
| 1960s | 1,351 | |
| 1970s | 2,466 | |
| 1980s | 3,277 | |
| 1990s | 2,865 | |
| 2000s | 2,653 | |
| 2010s | 2,115 | |
| 2020s | 777 |
In 1979, its biggest year
Elissa was the 496th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Elissa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tamarpeak 1977
- Joyapeak 1990
- Eveliapeak 1980
- Janellepeak 1979
- Holleypeak 1984
- Joipeak 1981
- Michalpeak 1985
- Lynneapeak 2011
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.