Ellissa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ellissa has been given to 492 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 2000, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Ellissa, 2018
1 in 703,000
Ellissa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ellissa?
Ellissa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ellissa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ellissas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellissa was born before 1999 — so the typical Ellissa is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 492
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (180).
Is Ellissa 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (30)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.8% average annual change
Spellings of Ellissa
Ellissa is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 74.9% against Ellissa's 0.05%.
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 Ellissa is used
Across 1910–2025, Ellissa was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,077,877 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
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. Ellissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ellissa around the world
Where Ellissa 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 & Wales1998–2020#5,493in 2020
- France2012–2012#7,442in 2012
- Canada2008–2008#3,151in 2008
- South Australia1982–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ellissa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ellissa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ellissa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.