Elissa
2025 SSA
About Elissa
The Elissa version of a long-popular name is fading in favor of Alyssa, Eliza and other variants. The legion of other forms and spellings includes Alissa, Allissa, Allyssa, Alyssa, Elissah, Ellisa, Ellissa, Ellyssa, Elys, Elyssa, Elyssia, Ilissa, Ilysa, Ilyssa, Lissa, Lissie, Lissy Lyssa.
Pronounced eh-LIS-uh.
As of October 2026, Elissa ranked #1848 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #496 in 1979.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,065 | 242 | 135.5 |
| 2015 | #1,394 | 169 | 94.7 |
| 2016 | #1,402 | 166 | 93.7 |
| 2017 | #1,388 | 166 | 96.2 |
| 2018 | #1,264 | 183 | 107.6 |
| 2019 | #1,137 | 213 | 126.9 |
| 2020 | #1,348 | 163 | 100.8 |
| 2021 | #1,345 | 164 | 99.9 |
| 2022 | #1,416 | 160 | 97.6 |
| 2023 | #1,465 | 150 | 93.5 |
| 2024 | #1,526 | 140 | 86.4 |
| 2025 | #1,848 | 108 | 67.2 |
World rankings
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Elissa on lists
Famous Elissas
- Elissa Wall
American memoirist and ex,fundamentalist Mormon
- Elissa Landi
Italian,American actress
- Elissa
Lebanese singer
- Elissa Down
Australian film director
- Elissa “Ellie” Downie
gymnast for England and Great Britain
Elissa in pop culture
- Elissa
another name for the queen Dido, legendary founder and queen of Carthage
- Elissa
one of the seven young women at the heart of Boccaccio's "The Decameron" , alongside Pampinea, Fiammetta, Filomena, Emilia, Lauretta, and Neifile (Nephele)
- Elissa Cassidy
character in movie "House at the End of the Street"
- Elissa Megan Powers
main character in manga "Empowered"
- Elissa Stephenson
character in the 'Unladylike adventure of Kat Stephenson' by Stephanie Burgis