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Alise

#4,664 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Alise has been given to 3,613 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #4,664 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Alise, 2025

1 in 114,000

Alise over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alise: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alise means

Alise has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Alise

A separate documented entry treats Alise as a form of Alice. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Alise as a variant of Alice. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Alise is used in Latvian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,613 girls were recorded with the name Alise between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 1987; its best national rank was #1,423 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,012 in 2020 to #4,664 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,777 in 2015 to #4,664 in 2025.

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 Alise?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,664
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alise 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alise was born before 1996 — so the typical Alise is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,388
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (740).

Is Alise 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
+791
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−652
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,887
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.5%
Peak was 1987 (92)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,423
1987

Spellings of Alise

Alise is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 38.9% against Alise's 0.15%.

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 Alise is used

Across 1910–2025, Alise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 130,243 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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. Alise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alise around the world

Where Alise 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2006–2019
    #551
    in 2019
  • France
    1900–2024
    #6,211
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #212
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1967–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alise by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,664
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 652
Best rank ever
#1,423
1987
Peak year
1987
92 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,613
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Alise

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

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Names with a curve like Alise

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alise, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alise

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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