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Aleyssa

Gender
Girl
Say it
uh-LISS-ah
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#10,104 for girls

Aleyssa is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Aleyssa mean?

Germanic: spelling of Alyssa, a form of Alice

“noble”

A spelling of Alyssa, a form of Alice that was also influenced by alyssum, a flowering plant.

Is Aleyssa a girl's or a boy's name?

Aleyssa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aleyssa in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,104among girls
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 180,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Aleyssa, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.

2025 had fewer girls named Aleyssa than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Aleyssa in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

2014Busiest: 20 in 20182025
Aleyssa in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#10,104
202410#9,551
202316#6,917
202212#8,536
202114#7,625
202018#6,321
20199#10,467
201820#6,006
201716#7,088
20168#11,776
201517#6,974
20148#11,925

Nicknames for Aleyssa

Names like Aleyssa

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Aleyssa

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Aleyssa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aleyssa, updated 20 October 2026.