first name
ALYSSA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 274,552 people named Alyssa, 64.9% reported their origin as White, 21% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.3% as two or more races. 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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Alyssa peaked in 1999, when 14,050 babies got the name.
At least 315,038 babies have been given the name since 1950. 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.
Alyssa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #48. The largest share of babies named Alyssa, 55%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Alyssa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alyssa has been most common in Nevada (2.2×), Arizona (1.8×), and Alaska (1.7×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.25×).
313,324 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Alyssa, most common first.
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