Alissa

Where Alissa comes from

Variant of Alyssa, from Alicia or from alyssum.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alissa
  • Germanic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #3,593 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #236
    1,090 babies named Alissa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1981
    Alissa Jung born
    German actress
  4. 1985
    Alissa White-Gluz born
    Canadian singer
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #607.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Alissa White-Gluz · Canadian singer, born 1985
  • Alissa Jung · German actress, born 1981
  • Alissa Czisny · American figure skater, born 1987
  • Alissa Johnson · American ski jumper, born 1987
  • Alissa York · Canadian writer, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.