Alissa
Alissa reached its high-water mark in 1998 at number 251, and has been recorded 38,622 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,942nd. About 38,000 Alissas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 38,622
- Estimated living today
- 38,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 251st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,942nd
- First recorded
- 1948
- Girls / boys
- 38,591 / 31
How old the living Alissas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 38,622 babies given the name since 1948, about 38,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 5,400 of them are children and 210 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Variant of Alyssa, from Alicia or from alyssum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alissas
- Alissa White-Gluz (born 1985)Canadian singer
- Alissa Jung (born 1981)German actress
- Alissa Czisny (born 1987)American figure skater
People named Alissa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alissa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alissa is most concentrated in Minnesota (1.7×), Arizona (1.7×), Nevada (1.6×), Wisconsin (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular girls’ names the year Alissa peaked:
Alissa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Alissa | 2,155 | 599th |
| Italy girls | Alissa | 1,930 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Alissa | 1,204 | 573rd |
| Switzerland girls | Alissa | 1,088 | 101st |
| Belgium girls | Alissa | 481 | 320th |
| Scotland girls | Alissa | 78 | 319th |
| Ireland girls | Alissa | 53 | 504th |
| Poland girls | Alissa | 14 birth registrations | 548th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alissa | 3 | 419th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alissa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alissa | 758 | 0.061% | 108th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alissa | 214 | 0.049% | 88th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Alissa | 113 | 0.173% | 21st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Alissa | 3 | 0.081% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Alissa is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.18% of children were given it – 112 of them.
Alissa: rank by region
In 2023, Alissa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alissa | 602 | 8 |
In 2015, Alissa was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Alissa | 9 | 2 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alissa appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (220th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Alissa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 58 | 195th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alissa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Alissa | 738 | 1,415 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Alissa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.