Laryssa
Feminine
Laryssa and Lorissa change different letters of the same Greek name, and neither change can be heard. One swaps the first vowel and one swaps the second; both keep the shape and the sound; and the American record holds them side by side as if they were separate names, which for practical purposes they now are.
How old is the name Laryssa?
Laryssa first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Laryssa alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 1,200 people named Laryssa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laryssa most popular?
Laryssa peaked in 1968, reaching #1365 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Larissa to Laryssa
The story of Laryssa
The y spelling is not only American. Larysa is the standard form in Ukrainian and in Polish, where y is an ordinary vowel letter with a fixed value rather than a decorative substitute, and the name is common enough there to be unremarkable. So a spelling that reads in the United States as a modern respelling is, three thousand miles east, simply how the name is written. That happens more often than people expect: a great many American respellings accidentally reproduce a real spelling from a language the family has never met, because there are only so many ways to write a sound and everyone eventually tries all of them.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Larissa is a place name older than Greek, inherited from whatever was spoken in that part of the world before, and its meaning has never been recovered. The usual gloss, citadel, is a guess from the fact that several fortified hills carried the name. Nothing in this spelling adds anything; the y is standing in for an i, as it has since the Middle Ages.
How the name formed
- Larissa
- Larysa
- Laryssa
Related forms: Larysa · Larysa · Larisa · Larissa
Pronouncing Laryssa
luh-RISS-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Ukrainian and Polish speakers say the y as a distinct vowel between i and u, which English does not have, so the name sounds noticeably different in its eastern European home.
Nicknames for Laryssa
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
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 196867 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1365reached in 1968
- Change vs 2020
- −14.3%6 in 2023, from 7
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.
Laryssa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Larysa in Ukrainian — same name
- Larysa in Polish — same name
- Larisa in Russian — same name
- Larissa in Greek — transliteration
Laryssas among us
people named Laryssa 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
Laryssa 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 spelling is genuinely standard in two Slavic languages rather than being an American invention.
- Lara and Rissa are two short forms belonging to different traditions.
- The rhythm is easy and the name is never mispronounced twice.
- Larissa is the standard English spelling and this one will be corrected by people trying to help.
- Larissa, Larisa, Laryssa and Lorissa all circulate together in the American record.
- There is no meaning available, and the citadel reading in print is a guess.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laryssas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Laryssa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laryssa in 2025?
- Laryssa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Laryssa with classmates?
- Laryssa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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