How popular is “Alissa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alissa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alissa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alissa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alissa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alissa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alissa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alissa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1948	9	0.000002607	9		100%
1949	5	0.000001435	5		100%
1950	16	0.000004567	16		100%
1952	12	0.00000316	12		100%
1953	8	0.000002076	8		100%
1954	21	0.000005275	21		100%
1955	17	0.000004234	17		100%
1956	23	0.000005578	23		100%
1957	19	0.000004522	19		100%
1958	42	0.00001016	42		100%
1959	45	0.000010823	45		100%
1960	44	0.000010593	44		100%
1961	54	0.000013036	54		100%
1962	45	0.000011151	45		100%
1963	81	0.000020464	81		100%
1964	92	0.000023665	92		100%
1965	92	0.000025376	92		100%
1966	131	0.000037691	131		100%
1967	195	0.000057439	195		100%
1968	235	0.000069559	235		100%
1969	276	0.000079417	276		100%
1970	358	0.000099265	358		100%
1971	331	0.000096435	331		100%
1972	301	0.000095769	301		100%
1973	372	0.000123306	372		100%
1974	340	0.000111842	340		100%
1975	381	0.000126184	381		100%
1976	406	0.000133804	406		100%
1977	506	0.000159295	506		100%
1978	543	0.000171085	536	7	97%
1979	1095	0.000329125	1090	5	99%
1980	951	0.000276092	944	7	99%
1981	854	0.000246865	848	6	99%
1982	789	0.000224917	789		100%
1983	744	0.000214822	744		100%
1984	797	0.000228448	797		100%
1985	823	0.00023059	823		100%
1986	828	0.000232775	828		100%
1987	753	0.000208841	753		100%
1988	780	0.000211094	780		100%
1989	903	0.000234884	897	6	99%
1990	998	0.0002525	998		100%
1991	959	0.000246196	959		100%
1992	1035	0.000269442	1035		100%
1993	1086	0.000288042	1086		100%
1994	1078	0.000289968	1078		100%
1995	999	0.00027279	999		100%
1996	1073	0.000294199	1073		100%
1997	1223	0.00033731	1223		100%
1998	1231	0.000334674	1231		100%
1999	1121	0.000303476	1121		100%
2000	1156	0.000305828	1156		100%
2001	1096	0.000292783	1096		100%
2002	1034	0.000276597	1034		100%
2003	1062	0.000279303	1062		100%
2004	955	0.00024994	955		100%
2005	849	0.000220815	849		100%
2006	859	0.000217128	859		100%
2007	1011	0.000252896	1011		100%
2008	731	0.000185974	731		100%
2009	691	0.000180882	691		100%
2010	585	0.00015829	585		100%
2011	474	0.000129586	474		100%
2012	416	0.000113743	416		100%
2013	377	0.00010341	377		100%
2014	322	0.000086877	322		100%
2015	289	0.000078089	289		100%
2016	224	0.000061057	224		100%
2017	226	0.000063196	226		100%
2018	202	0.000057453	202		100%
2019	153	0.00004408	153		100%
2020	154	0.0000461	154		100%
2021	149	0.000043979	149		100%
2022	128	0.000037835	128		100%
2023	122	0.000036845	122		100%
2024	136	0.000040859	136		100%

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