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Alyse

#3,031 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alice

Alyse has been given to 7,671 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #3,031 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 401 recorded.

Babies named Alyse, 2025

1 in 61,400

Alyse over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alyse: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alyse means

Alyse is a variant of Alice.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Alyse is a variant of Alice. Alice has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,671 girls were recorded with the name Alyse between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 401 in 1988; its best national rank was #545 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,501 in 2020 to #3,031 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,705 in 2015 to #3,031 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.

How common is Alyse?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 29,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,031
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alyse 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alyse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alyses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alyse was born before 1995 — so the typical Alyse is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,449
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Choose a decade

1980s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (1,892).

Is Alyse 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
−139
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−530
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,326
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.5%
Peak was 1988 (401)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#545
1988

Spellings of Alyse

Alyse is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 46.9% against Alyse's 0.61%.

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 Alyse is used

Across 2016–2025, Alyse was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 31,295 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 11,111
  2. 2Georgia1 in 16,667
  3. 3Illinois1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 25,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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.

Alyse around the world

Where Alyse 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
    2000–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    1993–2017
    #5,349
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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 Alyse

People whose public names include Alyse, 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.

Alyse in other languages

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

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

Alyse by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,031
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 530
Best rank ever
#545
1988
Peak year
1988
401 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,671
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Alyse

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

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Names with a curve like Alyse

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

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Sibling names for Alyse

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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