girls:
7.2k births since 1954
#1921 (66th percentile)
overall:
7.2k births since 1954
#3180 (59th percentile)
The name Elyssa is the #3,180 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,197 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 58.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,921 (66.4% percentile) for all time with 7,197 births since 1954.
Elyssa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (first recorded for girls in 1954). Birth data for Elyssa is available in 66 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Elyssa reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 29.6% percentile (ranked #616) with 137 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 137 births per million (ranked 29.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Elyssa ranks #912 for girls (3.7% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 16.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elyssa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Elyssa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.6% confident that Elyssa is pronounced as ih-LIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-lih-suh, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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