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Alyssia

#4,551 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alicia

Alyssia has been given to 4,929 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #4,551 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 215 recorded.

Babies named Alyssia, 2025

1 in 111,000

Alyssia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alyssia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alyssia means

Alyssia is a variant of Alicia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alyssia → Alicia → Adelais. The family’s meaning is “noble + character”, recorded in Old French with the source elements aþalaz and haiduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,929 girls were recorded with the name Alyssia between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 215 in 1998; its best national rank was #949 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,267 in 2020 to #4,551 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,434 in 2015 to #4,551 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alyssia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,551
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alyssia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alyssia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alyssias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alyssia was born before 1999 — so the typical Alyssia is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,929
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (1,773).

Is Alyssia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+473
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−284
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,117
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.0%
Peak was 1998 (215)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#949
1996

Spellings of Alyssia

Alyssia is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 66.1% against Alyssia's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alyssia is used

Across 1910–2025, Alyssia was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 49,876 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 33,333
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alyssia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alyssia around the world

Where Alyssia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2012–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1987–2025
    #1,338
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2013
    #275
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alyssia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,551
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 284
Best rank ever
#949
1996
Peak year
1998
215 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,929
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Alyssia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Alyssia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alyssia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alyssia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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