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Alissa

Pronounced /əˈlɪs.ə/

Rank in 2024
#1,564
Born in 2024
136
Peak year
1998 · #251
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 136 girls were named Alissa, about 1 in every 11,862.
  • It peaked in 1998 with 1,231 babies, ranked #251.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1948.
  • 38,490 girls have been named Alissa since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Alissa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.5
    Millennials
  6. 0.5
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 533 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,494 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 14,487 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Gen Z: 14,494 babies, 0.50 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,482 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Variant of Alyssa, from Alicia or from alyssum.

  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/əˈlɪs.ə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Alissa, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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