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Laryssa

Girls' name

Variant of Larissa

Laryssa has been given to 1,239 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1968, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Laryssa, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laryssa: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Larissa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laryssa means

Laryssa is a variant of Larissa.

Origin, language, and formation

Laryssa is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Larissa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,239 girls were recorded with the name Laryssa between 1968 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1968; its best national rank was #1,368 in 1968.

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 Laryssa?

Laryssa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laryssa 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laryssa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laryssas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laryssa was born before 1997 — so the typical Laryssa is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,239
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1990s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (386).

Is Laryssa 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (67)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,368
1968

Spellings of Laryssa

Laryssa is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 54.9% against Laryssa's 0.22%.

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 Laryssa is used

Across 1910–2025, Laryssa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 211,180 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New York1 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. Laryssa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laryssa around the world

Where Laryssa 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
    2009–2011
    #4,764
    in 2011
  • France
    2000–2020
    #7,455
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,562
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1985–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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.

Laryssa 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
#1,368
1968
Peak year
1968
67 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,239
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laryssa

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

LaressaLarissaLarrissaLariyahLaramieLareinaLarettaLariahLarkinKalissaLaritzaJulyssaJelissaHadassaCalissaJalyssaKalyssaNerissaLareenLarisaLarkynLarondaLarraineLarinda

Sibling names for Laryssa

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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