Alyse

Where Alyse comes from

Alyse 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. 1884
    Alyse Gregory born
    Suffragist and writer
  2. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,450 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1965
    Alyse Galvin born
    American politician
  4. 1988
    Peak, #545
    401 babies named Alyse — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,006.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Alyse Black · American singer-songwriter
  • Alyse Gregory · Suffragist and writer, 1884–1967
  • Alyse Galvin · American politician, born 1965

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.