How popular is “Alyssa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alyssa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alyssa” 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 “Alyssa” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alyssa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alyssa” 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
1950	5	0.000001427	5		100%
1953	6	0.000001557	6		100%
1954	7	0.000001758	7		100%
1956	13	0.000003153	13		100%
1957	13	0.000003094	13		100%
1958	20	0.000004838	20		100%
1959	35	0.000008418	35		100%
1960	111	0.000026722	111		100%
1961	87	0.000021003	87		100%
1962	86	0.000021312	86		100%
1963	124	0.000031327	124		100%
1964	118	0.000030353	118		100%
1965	119	0.000032824	119		100%
1966	137	0.000039417	137		100%
1967	143	0.000042122	143		100%
1968	199	0.000058903	199		100%
1969	380	0.000109342	380		100%
1970	444	0.000123111	444		100%
1971	402	0.000117121	402		100%
1972	344	0.00010945	344		100%
1973	449	0.000148829	449		100%
1974	467	0.000153618	467		100%
1975	559	0.000185136	559		100%
1976	681	0.000224434	681		100%
1977	759	0.000238943	759		100%
1978	801	0.000252373	801		100%
1979	1180	0.000354674	1174	6	99%
1980	1185	0.000344026	1180	5	99%
1981	1128	0.00032607	1128		100%
1982	1109	0.000316138	1109		100%
1983	1201	0.000346775	1201		100%
1984	1549	0.000443998	1538	11	99%
1985	2264	0.000634332	2258	6	99%
1986	3235	0.000909454	3225	10	99%
1987	5152	0.001428883	5136	16	99%
1988	7156	0.001936649	7134	22	99%
1989	9073	0.002360027	9043	30	99%
1990	11279	0.002853653	11263	16	100%
1991	10694	0.002745384	10678	16	100%
1992	10174	0.002648601	10163	11	100%
1993	11050	0.002930818	11030	20	100%
1994	10610	0.002853951	10602	8	100%
1995	10112	0.002761216	10100	12	100%
1996	11034	0.003025339	11024	10	100%
1997	12668	0.003493899	12649	19	100%
1998	13718	0.003729535	13709	9	100%
1999	14050	0.003803602	14036	14	100%
2000	13568	0.003589509	13553	15	100%
2001	13285	0.003548922	13272	13	100%
2002	12866	0.00344168	12847	19	100%
2003	12760	0.003355847	12750	10	100%
2004	12154	0.003180907	12109	45	99%
2005	10908	0.002837045	10891	17	100%
2006	10186	0.0025747	10177	9	100%
2007	11292	0.002824636	11275	17	100%
2008	9666	0.002459126	9652	14	100%
2009	7986	0.00209048	7979	7	100%
2010	7000	0.001894073	6993	7	100%
2011	6034	0.001649629	6029	5	100%
2012	5090	0.001391712	5090		100%
2013	4217	0.001156716	4212	5	100%
2014	3854	0.00103983	3846	8	100%
2015	3255	0.000879513	3255		100%
2016	2680	0.000730504	2680		100%
2017	2241	0.000626644	2241		100%
2018	1881	0.000534999	1881		100%
2019	1699	0.000489494	1699		100%
2020	1471	0.000440343	1471		100%
2021	1301	0.000384008	1301		100%
2022	1098	0.000324551	1098		100%
2023	929	0.000280563	929		100%
2024	793	0.000238245	793		100%

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