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Alis

#4,173 in 2025Girls' name

Noble + character

Alis has been given to 515 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #4,173 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Alis, 2025

1 in 97,500

Alis over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alis: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + character

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alis means

Alis means “noble + character”, associated with aþalaz and haiduz.

Origin, language, and formation

Alis is used in Hanunoo and Welsh.

Alis comes through Spanish Alicia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hanunoo, Alis is pronounced /ˈʔalis/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 510 girls were recorded with the name Alis between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,173 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,984 in 2020 to #4,173 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,729 in 2015 to #4,173 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Alis between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #12,119 in 2006.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alis?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,173
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alis was born before 2013 — so the typical Alis is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
510
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Alis rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+983
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,811
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,556
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.89×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (34)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,173
2025

Spellings of Alis

Alis is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 24.8% against Alis's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alis is used

Across 1910–2025, Alis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 892,042 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alis around the world

Where Alis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1910–2024
    #7,290
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Alis by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,173
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,811
Best rank ever
#4,173
2025
Peak year
2025
34 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
510
Count in 2025
34

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,119
2006
Peak year
2006
5 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alis

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Alis

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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