Alysha
Alysha was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,464 among girls’ names; 9,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,390 Americans named Alysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alysha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alysha is “a female given name, variant of Alicia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alysha?
#3,464 among girls’ names, 2025
Alysha fell from #3,093 in 2015 to #3,464 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.3 to 27.4 per million.
630 babies in 1990, the peak
Alysha peaked in 1990, when 630 girls were given it, #410 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,464 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,338 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,912 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,895 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,804 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,096 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,613 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,400 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,222 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,380 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,093 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,425 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,803 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,632 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,000 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,796 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,150 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,685 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,848 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,581 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 162 | #1,343 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 203 | #1,121 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 168 | #1,250 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 231 | #959 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 190 | #1,111 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 239 | #913 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 233 | #903 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 271 | #791 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 269 | #776 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 358 | #628 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 387 | #588 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 409 | #565 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 481 | #512 | 0.27 |
| 1992 | 512 | #482 | 0.28 |
| 1991 | 568 | #449 | 0.30 |
| 1990 | 630 | #410 | 0.33 |
| 1989 | 590 | #421 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 488 | #461 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 383 | #528 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 242 | #734 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 182 | #880 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 138 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 118 | #1,132 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 98 | #1,293 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,340 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 99 | #1,286 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 108 | #1,204 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,669 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,538 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,585 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,170 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,349 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,128 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,599 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,378 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,498 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,780 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,494 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alysha, and how old are they?
9,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,601 Americans ever recorded as Alysha. The median Alysha alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 8,140 people named Alysha (8,121 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,199 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 582 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 583 |
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 Alysha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,440 | 1.1× |
Where Alysha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alysha is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1965 it was given 1.3 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 Alysha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,667 babies since 1880, Alysha is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 323 babies (14%), the third 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 Alysha
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 Alysha and names like it
- Compare Alysha and AlishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlysha peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alysha since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Alysha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Alysha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.