Alyssa

girls:

313.1k births since 1950

#125 (98th percentile)

boys:

432 births since 1979

#4154 (9th percentile)

overall:

313.5k births since 1950

#242 (97th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alyssa".

1950 2023 19502023

Key Statistics

Total Births
313,099
Peak Births
14,035
Peak Year
1999
First Recorded
1950
Peak Percentile
98.9%
Current Percentile
66.9%
Peak Rank
#11
Current Rank
#314
Female statistics
Total Births
432
Peak Births
45
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1979
Peak Percentile
4.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#681
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Alyssa

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alyssa. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 68.8% confident that Alyssa is pronounced as uh-LIH-suh. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-suh, at 31.3% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Alyssa. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Alyssa, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ih-LEE-suh (3 syllables)
16 names 75.4k births
IH0 L IY1 S AH0
eh-LIH-suh (3 syllables)
7 names 66.2k births
EH0 L IH1 S AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 L IH1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.