Alysia

Where Alysia comes from

Alysia 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. 1950
    First appearance
    #4,738 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Alysia Reiner born
    American actress
  3. 1986
    Alysia Montaño born
    American middle distance runner
  4. 1989
    Peak, #571
    386 babies named Alysia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,314.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Alysia Reiner · American actress, born 1970
  • Alysia Montaño · American middle distance runner, born 1986
  • Alysia Rissling · Canadian bobsledder, born 1988
  • Alysia May · American tennis player, born 1971

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.