Elyssa
Elyssa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 800th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2004273 births
- Best rank
- #800in 1998
- Since 1954
- 7,246people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,246 girls have been named Elyssa in the United States since 1954, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 273 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 33%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2004, its biggest year
Elyssa was the 891st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Elyssa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gabrielapeak 2003
- Noemypeak 2001
- Karlipeak 1994
- Kaylepeak 2000
- Emileypeak 2005
- Kaylynpeak 1997
- Tatianapeak 1999
- Alexipeak 2002
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.