Allissa
Feminine
This name already had three spellings before this one arrived. Alissa, Alyssa and Alysa were all in use and all said identically, and Allissa is a fourth reading of the same sound — which is not a criticism so much as a description of what happens to a name with no settled written form.
How old is the name Allissa?
Allissa first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Allissa alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 2,000 people named Allissa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Allissa most popular?
Allissa peaked in 1998, reaching #1272 nationally. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alissa to Allissa
The story of Allissa
It is routinely filed as a form of Alice and it is almost certainly not one. Alice comes down from a Germanic compound by way of French, worn from four syllables to two over several centuries, and its written history is continuous and traceable. The Alyssa family appears in American records in the twentieth century with nothing behind it — no medieval bearers, no European parent, no chain of forms leading back. The two names share three letters at the front and a general shape, and that is all. Treating them as one name gives the newer one an ancestry it never had, which is flattering and untrue.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name has no established parent. It may descend from a flower name, from an independent American coinage, or from a much older name it resembles. None of these can be shown, and the spellings do not help to distinguish them.
How the name formed
- Alissa
- Alyssa
- Allissa
Pronouncing Allissa
uh-LISS-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Neither doubled letter changes anything audible, so all four spellings of this name are indistinguishable in speech.
Nicknames for Allissa
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 1998142 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1272reached in 1998
- Change vs 2017
- 0.0%10 in 2018, 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.
Allissas among us
people named Allissa 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
Allissa 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
- The sound is soft, familiar and never needs a second attempt.
- It has short forms from either end with different characters.
- Every letter in it is ordinary and nothing has to be explained.
- Four spellings compete and this one will be corrected to one of the others for life.
- There is no meaning to pass on, whatever other pages claim.
- It is closely tied to the decades of its rise.
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Frequently asked
- How many Allissas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Allissa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Allissa in 2025?
- Allissa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Allissa with classmates?
- Allissa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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