first name
ALISSA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 34,758 people named Alissa, 71.5% reported their origin as White, 14.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.6% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Alissa peaked in 1998, when 1,231 babies got the name.
At least 38,622 babies have been given the name since 1948. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Alissa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #524. The largest share of babies named Alissa, 37.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Alissa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alissa has been most common in Minnesota (1.7×), Arizona (1.7×), and Nevada (1.6×), and least common in Mississippi (0.36×).
35,895 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Alissa
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Alissa, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Alissa ranks #82,347 of 156,621, with 247 people. See Alissa as a last name
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