Alyse
Alyse was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,031 among girls’ names; 7,671 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,280 Americans named Alyse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alyse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alyse?
#3,031 among girls’ names, 2025
Alyse fell from #1,705 in 2015 to #3,031 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 69.5 to 33.6 per million.
401 babies in 1988, the peak
Alyse peaked in 1988, when 401 girls were given it, #545 among girls’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,031 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,892 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,445 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,858 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,753 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,501 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,171 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,048 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,222 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,693 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 124 | #1,705 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,471 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 144 | #1,524 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,257 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 147 | #1,510 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,546 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,451 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 149 | #1,547 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 159 | #1,469 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 191 | #1,257 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 155 | #1,389 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 155 | #1,356 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 137 | #1,440 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 147 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,384 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,342 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,256 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 130 | #1,348 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 148 | #1,211 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,623 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,196 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,365 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 153 | #1,155 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 187 | #1,004 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 216 | #897 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 241 | #816 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 307 | #662 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 401 | #545 | 0.23 |
| 1987 | 364 | #550 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 300 | #622 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 195 | #833 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,011 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,523 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,582 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,448 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,651 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,862 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,680 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,608 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,258 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,566 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,616 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,351 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,095 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,249 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,240 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,351 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 36 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,432 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,058 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,110 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,105 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,090 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,489 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,389 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,279 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,236 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,203 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,810 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,180 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,903 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,433 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,682 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,786 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,755 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,046 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,361 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,028 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,612 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,106 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,045 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,298 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alyse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alyse has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alyse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alyse, and how old are they?
7,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 7,671 Americans ever recorded as Alyse. The median Alyse alive today is 30 years old; half are between 18 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 6,656 people named Alyse (6,651 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 266 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 479 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
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 Alyse born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,650 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,249 | 0.9× |
Where Alyse is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alyse is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Alyse 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 Alyse?
Alyse is a less common spelling of Alice: SSA has recorded 7,671 Alyse and 590,106 Alice since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 970,257 babies since 1880, Alyse is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 4,472 babies (1.2%), the fourth 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 Alyse
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 Alyse and names like it
- Compare Alyse and AliceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAlyse peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alyse since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Alyse.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Alyse alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.