How Many People Are Named Lyssa?

1,439

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

About 1 in 237,515 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,492 babies named Lyssa in Social Security records from 1947 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,359

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,660

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Peak Year

1992

80 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: LIS-Ι™
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Short form of ALYSSA.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Lyssa in English. Counting Lyssa and these spellings together, about 5,021 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

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

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Lyssa alive today is about 33 years old, and 54% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 23 and 40 in 2025.

Under 30 568
39.5%
30 to 59 779
54.1%
60 and over 92
6.4%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Lyssa first appears in the records in 1947 and was given most often in 1992, to 80 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1947 to 2024

πŸ† Rank History

Lyssa has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,701, in 1985.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#1,701 (1985)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,931 in the 1990s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Lyssa were born in Texas than in any other state: about 67 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lyssa was given 4.9 times as often in Texas and 2.5 times in California.

Texas 67
California 57
Pennsylvania 13
Georgia 5
Michigan 5
New York 5
Ohio 5

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