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Lyssa

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Lyssa has been given to 1,492 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1992, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Lyssa, 2024

1 in 478,000

Lyssa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyssa: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyssa means

Lyssa has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Lyssa

A separate documented entry treats Lyssa as a short form of Alyssa. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Lyssa records a meaning of rage, fury, anger.

Origin, language, and formation

Lyssa is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alyssa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lyssa is pronounced /ˈlɪsə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,492 girls were recorded with the name Lyssa between 1947 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,701 in 1985.

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 Lyssa?

Lyssa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyssa 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyssa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyssas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyssa was born before 1992 — so the typical Lyssa is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,481
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (415).

Is Lyssa 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 1992 (80)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,701
1985

Spellings of Lyssa

Lyssa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 51.7% against Lyssa's 0.08%.

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 Lyssa is used

Across 1910–2025, Lyssa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 422,762 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Lyssa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lyssa around the world

Where Lyssa 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
    2001–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • France
    1993–2021
    #6,862
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1985–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Lyssa 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
#1,701
1985
Peak year
1992
80 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,492
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lyssa

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

NissaNessaDessaNyssaAissaLissaAnyssaIssaArissaBrissaAnessaLysaAlessaJessaInessaAryssaHadassaJalyssaLysandraNerissaKalissaAdessaJulyssaJelissa

Sibling names for Lyssa

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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