girls:
38.4k births since 1948
#695 (88th percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1978
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
38.4k births since 1948
#1272 (84th percentile)
The name Alissa is the #1,272 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,385 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 83.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #695 (87.9% percentile) for all time with 38,354 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1978.
Alissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1978 for boys). Birth data for Alissa is available in 75 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (75 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alissa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alissa reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 73.0% percentile (ranked #234) with 641 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 641 births per million (ranked 73.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alissa ranks #830 for girls (12.4% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 10.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alissa reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alissa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.0% confident that Alissa is pronounced as uh-LIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-suh, at 28.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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