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Alyshia

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Alyshia has been given to 1,297 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 105 recorded.

Babies named Alyshia, 2016

1 in 612,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alyshia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Germanic languages

What Alyshia means

Alyshia is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

One of the modern variations of Alicia meaning of noble kind.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Alyshia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Alyshia is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,297 girls were recorded with the name Alyshia between 1970 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 105 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,476 in 1990.

How common is Alyshia?

Alyshia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alyshia 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alyshia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alyshias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alyshia was born before 1992 — so the typical Alyshia is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,297
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (560).

Is Alyshia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (105)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,476
1990

Spellings of Alyshia

Alyshia is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 64.7% against Alyshia'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 Alyshia is used

Across 1910–2025, Alyshia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 448,473 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Missouri1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

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

Alyshia around the world

Where Alyshia 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    2005–2005
    #687
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1985–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alyshia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,476
1990
Peak year
1990
105 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
1,297
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alyshia

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

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Sibling names for Alyshia

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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