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Alize

#2,999 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Form of Alice

Alize has been given to 5,684 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #2,999 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 326 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Alize, 2025

1 in 60,300

Alize over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Alize over time

In 2025, Alize went to 90% girls and 10% boys.

19872025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Alize: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Alice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alize means

Alize is a form of Alice.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Alize is a form of Alice. Alice has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Alize is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice and Alizé.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Alize is pronounced /əˈliz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,334 girls were recorded with the name Alize between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 326 in 2002; its best national rank was #711 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,969 in 2020 to #2,999 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,778 in 2015 to #2,999 in 2025.

In the United States, 350 boys were recorded with the name Alize between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,788 in 1997.

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 Alize?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 29,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,999
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alize 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alize. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alizes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alize was born before 2004 — so the typical Alize is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,334
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (2,738).

Is Alize 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
−108
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−30
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−221
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.9%
Peak was 2002 (326)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#711
1998

Spellings of Alize

Alize is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 49.2% against Alize's 0.45%.

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 Alize is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Alize was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 34,458 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 7,692
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 7,692
  3. 3California1 in 11,111
  4. 4Texas1 in 12,500
  5. 5Nevada1 in 20,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 25,000
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 25,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 33,333

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

Where Alize is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Alize was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,106,683 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Alize has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alize around the world

Where Alize 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
    1998–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1985–2025
    #1,820
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1978–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Notable people named Alize

People whose public names include Alize, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alize in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alize. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlizAlizaElize

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alize by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,999
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 30
Best rank ever
#711
1998
Peak year
2002
326 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,334
Count in 2025
55

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,749
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,788
1997
Peak year
1997
53 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
350
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Alize

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

AliahAlidaAliseAlitaAliyaAlizaAlineAlisiaAlixAlianaAliannaAliaAlissonAlisaAlizahAlijahAlinaAliAlizaeAlicenAliyanaAlizayAlimaAlivia

Names with a curve like Alize

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

ReillyDasiaMadisenSavanaShyannDeasiaAbigayleMykaylaYulissaAlliyahAlexysJalyn

Sibling names for Alize

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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