Alysa

Where Alysa comes from

Alysa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #5,040 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Alysa Stanton born
    American rabbi
  3. 2001
    Peak, #737
    325 babies named Alysa — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2005
    Alysa Liu born
    American figure skater
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,561.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alysa Liu · American figure skater, born 2005
  • Alysa Stanton · American rabbi, born 1964
  • Alysa Nahmias · American filmmaker

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.