Alissia
Feminine · “Germanic adal and heid”
Alice in Wonderland was written for a real child. Charles Dodgson told the story to Alice Liddell on a boat on the Thames in July 1862, she asked him to write it down, and he did. The name was already rising in Victorian England; the book fixed it, and it has not been out of use since.
How old is the name Alissia?
Alissia first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Alissia alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 800 people named Alissia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alissia most popular?
Alissia peaked in 1998, reaching #3222 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 5,638 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alissia
The story of Alissia
The Liddells were the family of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer there, knew the children well. The story was told on 4 July 1862 during a rowing trip to Godstow with Alice, her two sisters and another colleague. Alice asked for it in writing, he produced a manuscript with his own illustrations as a Christmas present in 1864, and an expanded version was published in 1865 under the name Lewis Carroll. The book was an immediate success and has never been out of print. Alice was the fourth most popular girls' name in England and Wales in the 1870s and stayed high for decades, and the association with the book has kept it legible ever since. The name's own etymology, noble kind, is entirely unconnected to any of this.
Meaning
Germanic adal and heid, noble and kind
Alice descends from the Germanic Adalheidis, from adal, noble, and heid, kind or sort, through Old French Aalis. The same source gives Adelaide, so Alice and Adelaide are the same name in two degrees of contraction. Alissia is a modern respelling of Alicia, the Latinized form. It peaks in the American data in 1998.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Aalis
- Alicia
- Alissia
Related forms: Alicia · Alice · Adelheid
Pronouncing Alissia
uh-LEE-shah
Three syllables, stress on the second. uh-LIS-ee-ah with four is also heard, and the doubled s encourages it. Alicia itself is said at least three ways in English.
Nicknames for Alissia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 199937 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3222reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- +10.0%11 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alissia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alicia in English — spelling variant
- Alice in English — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
Alissias among us
people named Alissia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Alissia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alissia
- #8860
- Alissia on the 2025 chart
- #919
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alissia went to 11 girls in 2025, but Alyssia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 41, which makes it the 919th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,941 places above the chart.
- Alyssia30
- Alissia11
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Alissia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Aracelia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alissia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aracelia climbed just as high around 1955, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aracelia's path sketches the road Alissia is walking now.
Alissia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Alissia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alissia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Germanic elements are settled and documented.
- Ali and Alice are two usable short forms.
- The name family has an unbroken thousand-year history.
- Alicia is the standard spelling and is itself said several ways.
- The doubled s invites a four-syllable reading.
- Alyssa, Alissa and Alicia are all near neighbors.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alissias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Alissia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alissia?
- Alissia is one of 2 recorded spellings. Alyssia is the more common one — 30 births in 2025 against 11 for Alissia.
- How popular is the name Alissia in 2025?
- Alissia ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alissia?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Alissia — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alissia with classmates?
- Alissia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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