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How popular is “Elyssa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elyssa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elyssa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elyssa” 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
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1967 19 0.000005597 19 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1970 16 0.000004436 16 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 100%
1974 25 0.000008224 25 100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 40 0.000012592 40 100%
1978 53 0.000016699 53 100%
1979 52 0.00001563 52 100%
1980 44 0.000012774 44 100%
1981 56 0.000016188 56 100%
1982 41 0.000011688 41 100%
1983 39 0.000011261 39 100%
1984 42 0.000012039 42 100%
1985 79 0.000022134 79 100%
1986 74 0.000020804 74 100%
1987 113 0.00003134 113 100%
1988 143 0.0000387 143 100%
1989 165 0.000042919 165 100%
1990 188 0.000047565 188 100%
1991 191 0.000049034 191 100%
1992 163 0.000042434 163 100%
1993 189 0.000050129 189 100%
1994 189 0.000050839 189 100%
1995 186 0.00005079 186 100%
1996 232 0.000063611 232 100%
1997 244 0.000067296 244 100%
1998 265 0.000072046 265 100%
1999 246 0.000066597 246 100%
2000 252 0.000066668 252 100%
2001 244 0.000065182 244 100%
2002 253 0.000067678 253 100%
2003 257 0.00006759 257 100%
2004 273 0.000071449 273 100%
2005 246 0.000063982 246 100%
2006 248 0.000062687 248 100%
2007 246 0.000061536 246 100%
2008 193 0.000049101 193 100%
2009 206 0.000053924 206 100%
2010 188 0.000050869 188 100%
2011 176 0.000048116 176 100%
2012 175 0.000047849 175 100%
2013 134 0.000036756 134 100%
2014 142 0.000038312 142 100%
2015 105 0.000028371 105 100%
2016 114 0.000031074 114 100%
2017 97 0.000027124 97 100%
2018 57 0.000016212 57 100%
2019 69 0.000019879 69 100%
2020 81 0.000024247 81 100%
2021 61 0.000018005 61 100%
2022 56 0.000016553 56 100%
2023 40 0.00001208 40 100%
2024 49 0.000014721 49 100%

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