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Alysha

#3,464 in 2025Girls' name

Noble + character, through Alicia

Alysha has been given to 9,601 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #3,464 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 630 recorded.

Babies named Alysha, 2025

1 in 75,300

Alysha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alysha: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + character, through Alicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alysha means

Alysha belongs to the name family reached through Alysha → Alicia → Adelais. Its meaning is “noble + character”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alysha is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia and Adelais.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,601 girls were recorded with the name Alysha between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 630 in 1990; its best national rank was #410 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,096 in 2020 to #3,464 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,093 in 2015 to #3,464 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 Alysha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,464
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alysha 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alysha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alyshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alysha was born before 1993 — so the typical Alysha is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,601
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (4,118).

Is Alysha 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
−126
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−368
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−371
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.0%
Peak was 1990 (630)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#410
1990

Spellings of Alysha

Alysha is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 42.2% against Alysha's 1.3%.

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 Alysha is used

Across 1910–2025, Alysha was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 21,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 10,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 11,111
  5. 5Arizona1 in 14,286
  6. 6Idaho1 in 14,286
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 14,286
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 14,286

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

Alysha around the world

Where Alysha 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1993–2016
    #675
    in 2016
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2014
    #439
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    1998–2015
    #751
    in 2015
  • France
    2005–2025
    #3,639
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2012
    #431
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Alysha

People whose public names include Alysha, 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.

Alysha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,464
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 368
Best rank ever
#410
1990
Peak year
1990
630 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,601
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Alysha

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

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Names with a curve like Alysha

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

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Sibling names for Alysha

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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