Alys
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,359since 1880
Alys over time
Rank among girls' names. Alys has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 |
| 1938 | #2,447 | 12 |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 |
| 1933 | #2,540 | 11 |
| 1932 | #2,365 | 13 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #2,425 | 13 |
| 1929 | #2,301 | 14 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #1,885 | 21 |
| 1926 | #1,997 | 19 |
| 1925 | #2,617 | 13 |
| 1924 | #1,723 | 25 |
| 1923 | #1,637 | 26 |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 |
| 1921 | #1,765 | 24 |
| 1920 | #1,511 | 29 |
| 1919 | #2,640 | 12 |
| 1918 | #1,566 | 26 |
| 1917 | #1,552 | 24 |
| 1916 | #1,949 | 17 |
| 1915 | #1,738 | 19 |
| 1914 | #1,541 | 18 |
| 1913 | #1,405 | 17 |
| 1912 | #1,620 | 12 |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
| 1910 | #997 | 19 |
| 1909 | #1,957 | 6 |
| 1908 | #1,004 | 16 |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
| 1906 | #1,154 | 11 |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 |
| 1902 | #1,438 | 7 |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,502 | 6 |
| 1897 | #1,555 | 5 |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,136 | 8 |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #1,099 | 7 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,136 | 6 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #836 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Alys was already there! It came in at #836, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1887, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alys is popular in 1923
No state had 5 or more girls named Alys in 1923, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alys
- 270 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #4,878)
- 4,075 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #4,878)
- 2,388 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #4,878)
- Biggest jump: 960 spots in 1910 (#1,957 → #997)
- Biggest drop: 1,194 spots in 1911 (#997 → #2,191)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #836 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1910
- Highest: 1 in 18,199 girls born in 1880 were named Alys (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 14.6% of all girls named Alys (199) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | #836 (1880) | #986 |
| 1890s | 26 | #1,099 (1890) | #1,323 |
| 1900s | 60 | #1,004 (1908) | #1,482 |
| 1910s | 170 | #997 (1910) | #1,720 |
| 1920s | 199 | #1,511 (1920) | #2,039 |
| 1930s | 98 | #2,365 (1932) | #2,625 |
| 1940s | 83 | #2,287 (1944) | #3,479 |
| 1950s | 90 | #2,937 (1951) | #4,211 |
| 1960s | 70 | #4,493 (1966) | #5,519 |
| 1970s | 65 | #4,761 (1970) | #6,545 |
| 1980s | 82 | #4,840 (1988) | #7,054 |
| 1990s | 62 | #6,588 (1991) | #10,642 |
| 2000s | 84 | #7,891 (2005) | #10,916 |
| 2010s | 133 | #6,808 (2017) | #8,760 |
| 2020s | 126 | #4,655 (2023) | #6,203 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alys in 1923
Top girls' names in 1923
More about 1923
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1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 46,399 of them was named Alys, which outranked 71.5% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,598Violetta27
- #1,598Willow27
- #1,598Zettie27
- #1,637Alys26
- #1,637Aldine26
- #1,637Anthony26
- #1,637Blondell26
- #1,672Adel25
- #1,672Adelene25
- #1,672Alethia25
Tied with 34 names at #1,637; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.