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Alysa

#10,152 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alicia

Alysa has been given to 7,050 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #10,152 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 325 recorded.

Babies named Alysa, 2025

1 in 368,000

Alysa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alysa: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alysa means

Alysa is a variant of Alicia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alysa → Alicia → Adelais. The family’s meaning is “noble + character”, recorded in Old French with the source elements aþalaz and haiduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,050 girls were recorded with the name Alysa between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 325 in 2001; its best national rank was #737 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,646 in 2020 to #10,152 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,214 in 2015 to #10,152 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 Alysa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,152
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alysa 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alysa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alysas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alysa was born before 1999 — so the typical Alysa is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,050
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (2,632).

Is Alysa 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
−2,542
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,506
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,938
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.8%
Peak was 2001 (325)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#737
2001

Spellings of Alysa

Alysa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 37.2% against Alysa's 0.27%.

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 Alysa is used

Across 1910–2025, Alysa was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 33,391 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 25,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 25,000
  7. 7Utah1 in 25,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 25,000

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

Alysa around the world

Where Alysa 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
    1999–2024
    #3,016
    in 2024
  • France
    2003–2020
    #7,022
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1969–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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 Alysa

People whose public names include Alysa, 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.

Alysa in other languages

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

AlyseElysaAlyssa

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

Alysa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,152
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,506
Best rank ever
#737
2001
Peak year
2001
325 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,050
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Alysa

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

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Names with a curve like Alysa

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

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Sibling names for Alysa

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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