Alyssa
About 315,038 American babies have been named Alyssa since 1950, most of them around 1999. In 2025 it ranked 453rd. About 310,000 Alyssas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alyssa boys named Alyssa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 315,038
- Estimated living today
- 310,000
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 1999
- Best rank
- 11th
- Rank in 2025
- 453rd
- First recorded
- 1950
- Girls / boys
- 314,606 / 432
How old the living Alyssas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 315,038 babies given the name since 1950, about 310,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 61,000 of them are children and 180 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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
A 20th-century invention. Possible origins:.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alyssas
- Alyssa Milano (born 1972)American actress
- Alyssa Diaz (born 1985)American film and television actress
- Alyssa Naeher (born 1988)American soccer player
- Alyssa Sutherland (born 1982)Australian actress and model
- Alyssa Thomas (born 1992)American basketball player
- Alyssa Carson (born 2001)American space enthusiast
- Alyssa Campanella (born 1990)American model
- Alyssa Healy (born 1990)Australian cricketer
People named Alyssa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alyssa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alyssa is most concentrated in Nevada (2.2×), Arizona (1.8×), Alaska (1.7×), New Mexico (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1999
The most popular girls’ names the year Alyssa peaked:
Alyssa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Alyssa | 11,475 | 113th |
| England and Wales girls | Alyssa | 6,744 | 144th |
| Italy girls | Alyssa | 3,332 | — |
| Belgium girls | Alyssa | 1,949 | 75th |
| Switzerland girls | Alyssa | 1,339 | 79th |
| New Zealand girls | Alyssa | 1,032 | 37th |
| Scotland girls | Alyssa | 892 | 95th |
| Ireland girls | Alyssa | 505 | 172nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alyssa | 217 | 137th |
| Poland girls | Alyssa | 23 birth registrations | 415th |
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.
Alyssa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alyssa | 526 | 0.042% | 108th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alyssa | 668 | 0.154% | 46th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Alyssa | 144 | 0.221% | 27th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Alyssa | 1 | 0.027% | 11th |
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, Alyssa is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.23% of children were given it – 141 of them.
Alyssa: rank by region
In 2025, Alyssa was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alyssa | 584 | 8 |
| Wallonia | Alyssa | 452 | 5 |
In 2023, Alyssa was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Alyssa | 8 | 1 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alyssa appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (191st).
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.
Alyssa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alyssa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Alyssa | 1,955 | 2,792 |
| Finland girls | Alyssa | 99 | 161 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Where Alyssa lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 180 women called Alyssa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Alyssa | 11 | 0.020 | 3,086 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Alyssa | 18 | 0.018 | 2,725 |
| Girona | Alyssa | 7 | 0.017 | 2,558 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Alyssa | 5 | 0.016 | 2,669 |
| Palmas, Las | Alyssa | 9 | 0.015 | 4,039 |
| Toledo | Alyssa | 5 | 0.013 | 2,622 |
Listed in 11 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 41 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alyssa 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.