How Many People Are Named Alessa?

2,979

people named Alessa are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 114,731 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,005 babies named Alessa in Social Security records from 1970 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,187

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,912

See the top 100

Peak Year

2016

174 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Italian
Pronunciation: a-LES-sa
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Short form of ALESSANDRA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Alessa in the records were girls.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Alessa alive today is about 13 years old, and 92% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 17 in 2025.

Under 30 2,752
92.4%
30 to 59 227
7.6%
60 and over 0
0%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Alessa first appears in the records in 1970 and was given most often in 2016, to 174 babies. In 2025, 105 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1970 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Alessa has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,358, in 2016. In 2025 it ranked #1,872.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,872
Best rank#1,358 (2016)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,725 in the 2010s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Alessa alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Alessa were born in California than in any other state: about 527 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Alessa was given 2.5 times as often in Texas, 2.3 times in California and 2.1 times in Florida.

California 527
Texas 482
Florida 213
New York 86
Arizona 72
Pennsylvania 62
Illinois 58
Ohio 29
New Jersey 23
Colorado 20
Michigan 19
Georgia 16
Virginia 13
Washington 11
Massachusetts 10
Indiana 10
South Carolina 5
Tennessee 5
Kentucky 5
North Carolina 5

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