Alyssa is a 20th-century English elaboration of Alice combined with the Greek botanical Alyssum — "sweet alyssum," a delicate white-flowering plant believed by the ancient Greeks to cure madness (its name is from a- not + lyssa, rage). A top-20 US baby name from 1992 to 2009, peaking at #10 in 2003. Alyssa Milano (born 1972) — *American actress and activist; child star as Samantha on ABC's Who's the Boss? (1984-1992); played Phoebe Halliwell on The WB's Charmed (1998-2006) for eight seasons — at the time the longest-running US show with all female leads. In October 2017 her tweet "if you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply" reignited the #MeToo movement that activist Tarana Burke had launched in 2006. Time 100 Most Influential People (2018, alongside Burke). Alyssa Healy (born 1990) — Australian cricketer; captain of the Australian women's national cricket team; Player of the Match in two ICC Women's T20 World Cup finals (2018, 2020) and the 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup final — the most-decorated batter in international women's cricket of her era. Alyssa Edwards — RuPaul's Drag Race. Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings, Evil Dead Rise*).
Featured throughout 1990s-2020s American culture.
Alyssa reduces to nine — the number of #MeToo.