Lissa

#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births

Peak · girls
1958 · 116 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,979
since 1923

Lissa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Lissa has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201923peak #958, 1958girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#7,59414
2023#9,61610
2022#8,03213
2021#8,02413
2020#8,40612
2019#7,71614
2018#7,10016
2017#7,84014
2016#10,8599
2015#9,48111
2014#8,96612
2013#8,58013
2012#8,63213
2011#7,11817
2010#9,23112
2009#7,34117
2008#8,96513
2007#6,09322
2006#6,84018
2005#5,80021
2004#7,39115
2003#6,88516
2002#5,44421
2001#5,00923
2000#7,15814
1999#3,37437
1998#3,83130
1997#4,50823
1996#3,14937
1995#3,28534
1994#2,87741
1993#2,76843
1992#3,03638
1991#2,73843
1990#1,82878
1989#1,96565
1988#2,36946
1987#2,04454
1986#1,86660
1985#1,71067
1984#1,90555
1983#1,96152
1982#1,68467
1981#1,75464
1980#1,69267
1979#1,55574
1978#1,69062
1977#1,76158
1976#1,60262
1975#1,85449
1974#1,59859
1973#1,38871
1972#1,26381
1971#1,25388
1970#1,24789
1969#1,22683
1968#1,08396
1967#1,31669
1966#1,14286
1965#1,12988
1964#1,016112
1963#959122
1962#1,066102
1961#1,014114
1960#993117
1959#1,066100
1958#958116
1957#1,17082
1956#1,15181
1955#1,17572
1954#1,09381
1953#1,19965
1952#1,10772
1951#1,33948
1950#1,37544
1949#1,62733
1948#1,52037
1947#2,08922
1946#2,73913
1945#4,5565
1944#3,1399
1943#3,04010
1942#3,4448
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First appearance
1923

The first year at least five girls were named Lissa! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1923–1936, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Lissa
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 768 spots since 2024 (#7,594#8,362)
  • 44 spots since 2020 (#8,406#8,362)
  • 1,119 spots since 2015 (#9,481#8,362)
  • Biggest jump: 212 spots in 1958 (#1,170#958)
  • Biggest drop: 108 spots in 1959 (#958#1,066)
Rise & fade · girls
35 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1923
  • Peaked 1958 at #958 (116 births)
  • Births halved by 1975, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1958–1963
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,799
  • Highest: 1 in 15,799 girls born in 1963 were named Lissa (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #958 in 1958, was only 1 in 17,342 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 24.9% of all girls named Lissa (989) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s5#4,967 (1923)#4,967
1930s8#3,146 (1937)#3,146
1940s137#1,520 (1948)#2,769
1950s761#958 (1958)#1,163
1960s989#959 (1963)#1,094
1970s693#1,247 (1970)#1,521
1980s597#1,684 (1982)#1,895
1990s404#1,828 (1990)#3,139
2000s180#5,009 (2001)#6,693
2010s131#7,100 (2018)#8,552
2020s74#7,594 (2024)#8,339

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Lissa in 1923

girls
#4,967
5 births · 1 in 241,273 girls

Top girls' names in 1923

  1. #1Mary71,634
  2. #2Dorothy39,043
  3. #3Helen31,486
  4. #4Margaret26,134
  5. #5Betty25,989
  6. #6Ruth23,637
  7. #7Virginia18,325
  8. #8Mildred15,989
  9. #9Elizabeth15,459
  10. #10Frances14,881
  11. #4,967Lissa5
More about 1923

girls

1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 241,273 of them was named Lissa, which outranked 13.5% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Lissa
  1. #4,376Zoma6
  2. #4,376Zonia6
  3. #4,376Zorka6
  4. #4,967Lissa5
  5. #4,967Adala5
  6. #4,967Adelma5
  7. #4,967Adia5

Tied with 772 names at #4,967; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1922
Risers
  1. 1,834Eris#2,291#457
  2. 619Penny#1,508#889
  3. 317Laurene#1,309#992
  4. 310Cruz#1,103#793
  5. 306Dorene#1,207#901
Fallers
  1. 321Veva#962#1,283
  2. 318Arlie#949#1,267
  3. 305Gaynell#978#1,283
  4. 303Trinidad#449#752
  5. 300Laurine#897#1,197

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1923