Alysa
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 325 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,050since 1953
Alysa over time
Rank among girls' names. Alysa has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 |
| 2012 | #2,145 | 88 |
| 2011 | #1,804 | 112 |
| 2010 | #1,696 | 124 |
| 2009 | #1,561 | 144 |
| 2008 | #1,286 | 193 |
| 2007 | #1,037 | 254 |
| 2006 | #1,045 | 245 |
| 2005 | #840 | 302 |
| 2004 | #823 | 302 |
| 2003 | #851 | 284 |
| 2002 | #808 | 286 |
| 2001 | #737 | 325 |
| 2000 | #768 | 297 |
| 1999 | #831 | 259 |
| 1998 | #775 | 277 |
| 1997 | #767 | 274 |
| 1996 | #840 | 237 |
| 1995 | #886 | 214 |
| 1994 | #860 | 228 |
| 1993 | #892 | 216 |
| 1992 | #865 | 228 |
| 1991 | #967 | 194 |
| 1990 | #900 | 213 |
| 1989 | #1,004 | 172 |
| 1988 | #1,077 | 146 |
| 1987 | #1,209 | 119 |
| 1986 | #1,505 | 82 |
| 1985 | #1,691 | 68 |
| 1984 | #1,905 | 55 |
| 1983 | #2,236 | 43 |
| 1982 | #2,115 | 48 |
| 1981 | #2,265 | 44 |
| 1980 | #2,308 | 42 |
| 1979 | #1,795 | 60 |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 |
| 1977 | #2,666 | 31 |
| 1976 | #2,135 | 40 |
| 1975 | #2,969 | 24 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 |
| 1972 | #2,903 | 23 |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 |
| 1970 | #2,017 | 41 |
| 1969 | #2,058 | 37 |
| 1968 | #2,482 | 25 |
| 1967 | #2,117 | 31 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | #3,066 | 17 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
| 1960 | #4,184 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alysa! It came in at #5,040, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1954, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alysa is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#502 · 1 in 2,960
- Louisiana#563 · 1 in 2,812
- North Carolina#576 · 1 in 3,027
- Maryland#649 · 1 in 3,538
- Washington#679 · 1 in 3,669
Best ever in a state: #246 in West Virginia, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #502 | 16 | 1 in 2,960 |
| Louisiana | #563 | 7 | 1 in 2,812 |
| North Carolina | #576 | 15 | 1 in 3,027 |
| Maryland | #649 | 7 | 1 in 3,538 |
| Washington | #679 | 8 | 1 in 3,669 |
| Illinois | #680 | 17 | 1 in 3,951 |
| Ohio | #701 | 12 | 1 in 4,773 |
| Virginia | #706 | 9 | 1 in 4,123 |
| Florida | #727 | 19 | 1 in 4,511 |
| Indiana | #733 | 7 | 1 in 4,644 |
| Arizona | #745 | 9 | 1 in 3,948 |
| Pennsylvania | #771 | 10 | 1 in 5,486 |
| New York | #774 | 19 | 1 in 5,004 |
| Texas | #785 | 34 | 1 in 4,724 |
| California | #834 | 43 | 1 in 5,359 |
| Georgia | #891 | 10 | 1 in 5,139 |
| Tennessee | #964 | 5 | 1 in 6,215 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alysa
- 2,513 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,107)
- 3,478 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #10,107)
- 6,896 spots since 2015 (#3,211 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 104 spots in 1990 (#1,004 → #900)
- Biggest drop: 205 spots in 2006 (#840 → #1,045)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2001 at #737 (325 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1990–2005
- Highest: 1 in 5,540 girls born in 2001 were named Alysa (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.3% of all girls named Alysa (2,632) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 33 | #3,619 (1959) | #4,515 |
| 1960s | 182 | #2,058 (1969) | #3,410 |
| 1970s | 334 | #1,795 (1979) | #2,522 |
| 1980s | 819 | #1,004 (1989) | #1,732 |
| 1990s | 2,340 | #767 (1997) | #858 |
| 2000s | 2,632 | #737 (2001) | #976 |
| 2010s | 622 | #1,696 (2010) | #3,335 |
| 2020s | 88 | #6,229 (2022) | #7,584 |
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.
Alysa in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 6,119 of them was named Alysa, which outranked 95.6% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).