Alysa
Alysa was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,152 among girls’ names; 7,050 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,900 Americans named Alysa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alysa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alysa?
#10,152 among girls’ names, 2025
Alysa fell from #3,214 in 2015 to #10,152 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.6 to 5.6 per million.
325 babies in 2001, the peak
Alysa peaked in 2001, when 325 girls were given it, #737 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,152 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,610 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,945 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,240 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,051 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,646 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,312 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,894 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,927 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,089 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,214 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,780 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,509 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,146 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,804 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 124 | #1,697 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,561 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 193 | #1,286 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 254 | #1,037 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 245 | #1,046 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 302 | #840 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 302 | #823 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 284 | #851 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 286 | #808 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 325 | #737 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 297 | #768 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 259 | #830 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 277 | #775 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 274 | #768 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 237 | #840 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 214 | #883 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 228 | #859 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 216 | #892 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 228 | #863 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 194 | #966 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 213 | #898 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 172 | #1,001 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 146 | #1,076 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 119 | #1,210 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,505 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,690 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,906 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,238 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,116 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,266 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,308 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,193 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,668 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,136 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,970 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,835 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,753 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,958 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,059 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,483 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,118 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,149 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,104 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,269 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,193 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,055 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alysa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alysa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alysa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alysa, and how old are they?
6,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,050 Americans ever recorded as Alysa. The median Alysa alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 6,451 people named Alysa (6,443 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,855 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 73 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 470 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 383 |
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 Alysa born?
The states with the most babies named Alysa are California, Texas and New York, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 931 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 578 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 354 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 341 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 249 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 221 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 220 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 219 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 138 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 128 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Alysa 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 Alysa?
Alysa is a less common spelling of Alyssa: SSA has recorded 7,050 Alysa and 315,038 Alyssa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 426,825 babies since 1880, Alysa is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,032 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
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 Alysa
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 Alysa and names like it
- Compare Alysa and AlyssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlysa peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alysa since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Alysa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alysa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.