Alyssandra
Feminine
Alyssa and Alexandra are unrelated. One is a flower named for a rabies cure, the other is Greek for defending men, and this name fuses them because they happen to sound alike.
How old is the name Alyssandra?
Alyssandra first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Alyssandra alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 800 people named Alyssandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alyssandra most popular?
Alyssandra peaked in 2012, reaching #3169 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 7,748 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Alyssandra
Names that sound related get treated as related, and once that happens they can be merged. Alyssa entered English as a flower name in the nineteenth century, from a Greek plant word meaning against madness; Alexandra has been in continuous use since antiquity and means something entirely different. They share three syllables and a stress pattern, so American parents hear them as versions of each other, and blends like Alyssandra and Alessa appear. The result is a name with two respectable ancestors and no descent from either, which is a common enough situation once a name stock is large enough for accidental resemblance. What it means practically is that no single etymology can be given for the whole, only for the halves.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Alyssandra blends Alyssa, from the plant alyssum, with Alessandra or Alexandra, from Greek Alexandros. The two names have no common ancestor; the fusion is modern and American. The peak is 2012.
Pronouncing Alyssandra
al-ih-SAN-druh
Four syllables, stress on the third. It is regularly shortened to three in fast speech.
Nicknames for Alyssandra
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
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 201252 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3169reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- −42.9%8 in 2025, from 14
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.
Alyssandra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alysandra in English — spelling variant
- Alessandra in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Alyssandras among us
people named Alyssandra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Alyssandra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alyssandra
- #10917
- Alyssandra on the 2025 chart
- #945
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alyssandra went to 8 girls in 2025, but Alissandra is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 15, which makes it the 945th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,972 places above the chart.
- Alyssandra8
- Alissandra7
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Alyssandra 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 Amberley test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alyssandra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amberley climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amberley's path sketches the road Alyssandra is walking now.
Alyssandra 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
Alyssandra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alyssandra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Alyssa and Sandra are both complete names inside it.
- Four syllables with a strong late stress.
- It is genuinely rare while sounding entirely familiar.
- Four syllables is long before a surname.
- It will be spelled out every time.
- The 2012 peak dates it closely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alyssandras 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 Alyssandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alyssandra?
- Alyssandra is the most-used spelling in US records — 8 of the 15 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Alissandra.
- How popular is the name Alyssandra in 2025?
- Alyssandra ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alyssandra?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Alyssandra — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alyssandra with classmates?
- Alyssandra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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