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Allyssa

The name Allyssa carries the meaning "Greek, without madness", with roots in Greek. It has faded some since the 1990s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. It has shown up in U.S. birth records across 5 of the last twelve decades.

EtymologyVariant of Alyssa, from the flower "alyssum"
GreekGreek – "without madness"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
0
1970s
104
1980s
706
1990s
2,859
2000s
2,237
2010s
655
Peaked in the 1990s · 6,561 total U.S. births since 1900