Allisa
Feminine
Allisa takes the doubled l from one name and the single s from another. The doubling belongs to the medieval name that came through Norman French; the single s belongs to the modern name that appeared in America without an ancestor. This spelling holds one letter from each and belongs cleanly to neither.
How old is the name Allisa?
Allisa first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Allisa alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 1,300 people named Allisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Allisa most popular?
Allisa peaked in 1998, reaching #2461 nationally. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Germanic compound behind the medieval name to Allisa
Our story of Allisa
Hybrid spellings are commoner than the reference books admit and they cause a particular kind of trouble. A name with two possible parents can at least be argued about; a spelling that takes one feature from each parent cannot be assigned at all, because every argument for one side has a counter-feature sitting in the same eight letters. Registrars record what they are given, so the hybrids accumulate, and after a generation there is a family of spellings around two names with no line between them. The practical effect is that a woman with this name can be told two different origins by two different reference works and both will be quoting real evidence about a name that is not quite hers.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The two candidate parents have different histories and only one has a meaning. The medieval name descends from a Germanic compound; the modern one arrived in the twentieth century with no traceable source at all. A spelling that splits the difference cannot claim the meaning of the half that has one.
How the name formed
- A Germanic compound behind the medieval name
- A modern name arriving without an ancestor
- The two families accumulating shared spellings
- Allisa taking one letter from each
Pronouncing Allisa
uh-LISS-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and the first reduced almost to nothing. The doubled l keeps the s crisp and the first vowel short; a single l would invite a long a at the front.
Nicknames for Allisa
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
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 199856 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2461reached in 1998
- Change vs 2014
- +140.0%12 in 2015, from 5
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.
Allisas among us
people named Allisa are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Allisa sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Ali and Lissa are two complete names available from one certificate.
- The sound is transparent and nobody will need it repeated.
- The doubling settles the first vowel, which the plainer spellings leave open.
- Alissa, Alyssa and Alisa are all commoner and will be written for it.
- No parent can be given, because the spelling belongs to two families.
- It is firmly of the later twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Allisas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Allisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Allisa in 2025?
- Allisa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Allisa with classmates?
- Allisa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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