girls:
6.7k births since 1971
#2011 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1971
#3298 (57th percentile)
The name Allyssa is the #3,298 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,665 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 57.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,011 (64.8% percentile) for all time with 6,665 births since 1971.
Allyssa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971).
For girls, Allyssa reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 37.3% percentile (ranked #548) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 180 births per million (ranked 37.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Allyssa ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Allyssa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Allyssa", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 32 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alyssa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alyssa..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Allyssa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.4% confident that Allyssa is pronounced as uh-LIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-suh, at 36.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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