Allyssa

Where Allyssa comes from

The dictionaries list Allyssa as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alyssa — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #6,006 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Peak, #659
    349 babies named Allyssa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,487.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alyssa.
Namesakes

No widely known Allyssa turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.