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Alyssa
Pronounced /əˈlɪs.ə/
Rank in 2024
#399
Born in 2024
793
Peak year
1999 · #11
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 793 girls were named Alyssa, about 1 in every 2,034.
- It peaked in 1999 with 14,036 babies, ranked #11.
- It first shows up in the records in 1950.
- 313,912 girls have been named Alyssa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Alyssa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 3.8Millennials1981–96
- 6.0Gen Z1997–12
- 1.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 625 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,238 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 106,632 babies, 3.78 per 1,000. Gen Z: 173,011 babies, 5.95 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 25,406 babies, 1.25 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A 20th-century invention. Possible origins: From alyss(um) (“a plant of the genus Alyssum”) + -a. From Alicia, of Germanic origin. From Elissa.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /əˈlɪs.ə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Alyssa, CC BY-SA 4.0.