How popular is “Elissa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elissa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elissa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elissa” 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	Bias toward female
1914	6	0.000004236	6	100%
1915	7	0.00000382	7	100%
1916	14	0.000007237	14	100%
1917	6	0.00000299	6	100%
1918	13	0.000005988	13	100%
1920	11	0.000004862	11	100%
1921	7	0.000002998	7	100%
1923	8	0.000003475	8	100%
1924	6	0.000002519	6	100%
1928	5	0.000002211	5	100%
1930	7	0.000003148	7	100%
1931	14	0.000006653	14	100%
1932	29	0.000013736	29	100%
1933	54	0.000027007	54	100%
1934	50	0.000024075	50	100%
1935	61	0.000029188	61	100%
1936	44	0.000021179	44	100%
1937	37	0.000017365	37	100%
1938	40	0.000018078	40	100%
1939	42	0.000019061	42	100%
1940	35	0.0000152	35	100%
1941	42	0.000017238	42	100%
1942	41	0.000015008	41	100%
1943	63	0.00002232	63	100%
1944	51	0.000018959	51	100%
1945	55	0.000020732	55	100%
1946	73	0.000022846	73	100%
1947	88	0.000024429	88	100%
1948	109	0.000031571	109	100%
1949	119	0.000034149	119	100%
1950	86	0.000024548	86	100%
1951	113	0.000030675	113	100%
1952	172	0.000045287	172	100%
1953	167	0.000043336	167	100%
1954	166	0.000041701	166	100%
1955	144	0.000035865	144	100%
1956	109	0.000026437	109	100%
1957	94	0.00002237	94	100%
1958	110	0.000026609	110	100%
1959	122	0.000029341	122	100%
1960	105	0.000025278	105	100%
1961	118	0.000028487	118	100%
1962	112	0.000027755	112	100%
1963	165	0.000041686	165	100%
1964	131	0.000033697	131	100%
1965	103	0.00002841	103	100%
1966	115	0.000033087	115	100%
1967	155	0.000045657	155	100%
1968	170	0.000050319	170	100%
1969	177	0.000050931	177	100%
1970	258	0.000071537	258	100%
1971	215	0.000062639	215	100%
1972	201	0.000063952	201	100%
1973	226	0.000074912	226	100%
1974	175	0.000057566	175	100%
1975	216	0.000071538	216	100%
1976	217	0.000071516	217	100%
1977	271	0.000085314	271	100%
1978	279	0.000087905	279	100%
1979	408	0.000122633	408	100%
1980	357	0.000103643	357	100%
1981	352	0.000101752	352	100%
1982	364	0.000103764	364	100%
1983	348	0.000100481	348	100%
1984	315	0.00009029	315	100%
1985	302	0.000084615	302	100%
1986	340	0.000095584	340	100%
1987	302	0.000083758	302	100%
1988	258	0.000069823	258	100%
1989	339	0.000088179	339	100%
1990	279	0.000070589	279	100%
1991	300	0.000077017	300	100%
1992	292	0.000076016	292	100%
1993	272	0.000072143	272	100%
1994	247	0.00006644	247	100%
1995	290	0.000079188	290	100%
1996	269	0.000073755	269	100%
1997	300	0.000082742	300	100%
1998	311	0.000084552	311	100%
1999	305	0.000082569	305	100%
2000	290	0.000076722	290	100%
2001	302	0.000080676	302	100%
2002	299	0.000079983	299	100%
2003	284	0.000074691	284	100%
2004	279	0.000073019	279	100%
2005	274	0.000071264	274	100%
2006	248	0.000062687	248	100%
2007	224	0.000056032	224	100%
2008	247	0.000062839	247	100%
2009	206	0.000053924	206	100%
2010	219	0.000059257	219	100%
2011	224	0.000061239	224	100%
2012	298	0.000081479	298	100%
2013	235	0.00006446	235	100%
2014	242	0.000065293	242	100%
2015	169	0.000045664	169	100%
2016	166	0.000045248	166	100%
2017	166	0.000046418	166	100%
2018	183	0.000052049	183	100%
2019	213	0.000061367	213	100%
2020	163	0.000048794	163	100%
2021	164	0.000048407	164	100%
2022	160	0.000047293	160	100%
2023	150	0.000045301	150	100%
2024	140	0.000042061	140	100%

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