Amissa

Girls' name

Friend

Amissa has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Amissa, 1983

1 in 693,000

Amissa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amissa: meaning, origin, and history

Friend

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amissa means

Amissa means “friend”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amissa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Amissa between 1971 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1979; its best national rank was #8,371 in 1971.

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 Amissa?

Amissa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983: 1 in 693,000; 5 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only: 1 in 334,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 480,076 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amissa 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 1983 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 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amissa was born before 1979 — so the typical Amissa is around 46 today.

Median birth year: 1979; About 46 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 76.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 21; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 76.2% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Amissa 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1979 (6)
Years since peak: 46; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,371; 1971

Spellings of Amissa

Amissa is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 37.5% against Amissa's <0.01%.

Alyssa37.5%314,606
Marissa14.4%120,842
Alisha6.8%56,996
Alissa4.6%38,591
Alisa4.1%34,705
Carissa3.4%28,447
Aisha3.2%26,933
Amira3.1%25,609

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.

Amissa around the world

Where Amissa 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.

France
1985–1985
#3,344
in 1985

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Amissa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,371; 1971
Peak year: 1979; 6 that year
First recorded: 1971
Last recorded: 1983
All-time count: 21
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Amissa

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

Amiris Amirii Amilla Amiriya Amiela Amirie Amisa Taissa Amirya Laissa Amiras Amiyra Amiriyah Amilyn Amiko Amiira Amillie Neissa Amiryah Leissa Aminda Amilda Naissa Amilliah

Sibling names for Amissa

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

For a sister

Bambi Shanika Mellissa Latosha Lani Lindy Shanta Charissa

For a brother

Delvin Leopoldo Jerod Cedrick Reggie Torrey Jed Wilfredo

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