Alysen
Alysen was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 456 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alysen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alysen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,412, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 2007, the peak
Alysen peaked in 2007, when 26 girls were given it, #5,381 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,412 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,598 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,684 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,151 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,610 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,994 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,293 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,140 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,916 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,729 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 16 | #7,704 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,432 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,381 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,369 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,016 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,848 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,066 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,302 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,148 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,494 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,260 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,036 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,160 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,875 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,267 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,624 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,628 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,520 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,615 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,269 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,786 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,065 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,008 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,765 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,581 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,829 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,051 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,489 | 4.7 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,197 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,967 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,692 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,323 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,817 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alysen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alysen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alysen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alysen, and how old are they?
An estimated 448 Americans named Alysen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 421 people named Alysen (420 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 445 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 204,704 babies since 1880, Alysen is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,055 babies recorded by SSA was a Alysen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Alysen
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 Alysen and names like it
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