Girl
Elissa
Elissa is a girl's name, a distinctive, less common pick, that has stayed remarkably steady since peaking in the 1980s.
EtymologyVariant of Alyssa
EtymologyAlso another name for Dido (Elissa) in myth
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
46
1920s
37
1930s
378
1940s
676
1950s
1,282
1960s
1,350
1970s
2,466
1980s
3,277
1990s
2,864
2000s
2,652
2010s
1,714
Peaked in the 1980s · 16,742 total U.S. births since 1900