Alise
Alise was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,664 among girls’ names; 3,613 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,300 Americans named Alise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 16 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alise?
#4,664 among girls’ names, 2025
Alise fell from #2,777 in 2015 to #4,664 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.3 to 18.0 per million.
92 babies in 1987, the peak
Alise peaked in 1987, when 92 girls were given it, #1,423 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,664 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,455 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,459 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,467 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,246 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,012 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,502 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,398 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,635 | 38.2 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,564 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,777 | 35.3 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,442 | 41.4 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,284 | 46.2 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,207 | 48.3 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,190 | 48.9 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,804 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,706 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,538 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,349 | 42.1 |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,149 | 47.3 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,121 | 47.1 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,650 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,553 | 34.5 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,672 | 31.7 |
| 2001 | 74 | #2,190 | 41.1 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,965 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,973 | 44.5 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,335 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,511 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,473 | 29.1 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,619 | 26.7 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,498 | 28.0 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,285 | 31.0 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,028 | 36.3 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,952 | 37.9 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,792 | 42.1 |
| 1989 | 78 | #1,729 | 42.3 |
| 1988 | 86 | #1,540 | 48.3 |
| 1987 | 92 | #1,423 | 52.9 |
| 1986 | 89 | #1,439 | 51.9 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,785 | 36.6 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,018 | 29.7 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,310 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,781 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,626 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 19 | #3,994 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,667 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,223 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,356 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,728 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,775 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,011 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,635 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,977 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,429 | 18.6 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,858 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,350 | 17.8 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,296 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,707 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,093 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,032 | 18.7 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,040 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,172 | 15.6 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,539 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,196 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,245 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,981 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,233 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,562 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,187 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,474 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,159 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,109 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,806 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,284 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,306 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,243 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,248 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,766 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,967 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,062 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,633 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,354 | 4.5 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,427 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,979 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,060 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,581 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,735 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,878 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,272 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,618 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,011 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,647 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,384 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,764 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,969 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,814 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,877 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,091 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,040 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,904 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,633 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,544 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,984 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,197 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,939 | 17.7 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,442 | 26.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alise, and how old are they?
3,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 3,613 Americans ever recorded as Alise. The median Alise alive today is 27 years old; half are between 16 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 3,280 people named Alise (3,272 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 245 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 338 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 938 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 613 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alise born?
The states with the most babies named Alise are California, Texas and New York, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 293 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 133 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 81 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alise with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Alise?
Alise is a less common spelling of Alice: SSA has recorded 3,613 Alise and 590,106 Alice since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 687,626 babies since 1880, Alise is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 3,889 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alise
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alise and names like it
- Compare Alise and AliceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAlise peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alise since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Alise.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alise alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.