How rare is the name Lissa?

4,260 people in the United States have the first name Lissa, about 1 in 70,899. It ranks #4,405 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LISSA

#4,405

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,260
About
1 in 70,899
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,260 people named Lissa, 67.5% reported their origin as White, 17.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lissa peaked in 1963, when 122 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19232025
Peak year
1963
Births that year
122
In 2025*
12 ▼90%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 3,979 babies have been given the name since 1923. 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.

Lissa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,817. The largest share of babies named Lissa, 36%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1920s#13,8275
1930s#10,9648
1940s#4,229137
1950s#1,932761
1960s#1,817989
1970s#2,403693
1980s#3,033597
1990s#4,930404
2000s#10,904180
2010s#14,057131
2020s#14,16474
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–451%
Baby boom 1946–6436%
Generation X 1965–8029.7%
Millennials 1981–9621.2%
Generation Z 1997–127.8%
2013 and later4.1%

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 Lissa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lissa has been most common in California (3.4×), Texas (2.2×), and New York (2.1×), and least common in Florida (0.7×).

1,397 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 Lissa

#4,403 Rasheed · 4,264#4,404 Abbas · 4,261#4,406 Caterina · 4,259#4,407 Myung · 4,256

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lissa, most common first.

#36 Lisa · 864,260#6,182 Lisha · 2,623#16,212 Liisa · 700#17,037 Lissy · 654#21,351 Liesa · 476#25,713 Liss · 367#35,138 Lisia · 230#52,745 Liska · 105

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