Alyson
Alyson was given to 157 girls in 2025, #1,388 among girls’ names; 29,740 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 28,800 Americans named Alyson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alyson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alyson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alyson is “a female given name.”
Rare variant of Alison.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alyson?
#1,388 among girls’ names, 2025
Alyson fell from #680 in 2015 to #1,388 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.23 to 0.10 per 1,000.
741 babies in 1990, the peak
Alyson peaked in 1990, when 741 girls were given it, #358 among girls’ names. The 157 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157 | #1,388 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 191 | #1,232 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 200 | #1,199 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 201 | #1,199 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 247 | #1,028 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 233 | #1,063 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 281 | #939 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 305 | #887 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 326 | #832 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 356 | #799 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 419 | #680 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 496 | #594 | 0.28 |
| 2013 | 498 | #577 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 555 | #541 | 0.32 |
| 2011 | 620 | #480 | 0.35 |
| 2010 | 588 | #510 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 642 | #480 | 0.35 |
| 2008 | 654 | #483 | 0.35 |
| 2007 | 595 | #524 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 668 | #472 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 652 | #470 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 658 | #456 | 0.36 |
| 2003 | 675 | #444 | 0.37 |
| 2002 | 647 | #447 | 0.36 |
| 2001 | 607 | #456 | 0.34 |
| 2000 | 599 | #463 | 0.33 |
| 1999 | 635 | #433 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 658 | #410 | 0.37 |
| 1997 | 632 | #414 | 0.36 |
| 1996 | 668 | #397 | 0.38 |
| 1995 | 662 | #396 | 0.38 |
| 1994 | 700 | #372 | 0.39 |
| 1993 | 699 | #364 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 643 | #399 | 0.35 |
| 1991 | 576 | #442 | 0.31 |
| 1990 | 741 | #358 | 0.39 |
| 1989 | 725 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1988 | 643 | #374 | 0.36 |
| 1987 | 694 | #346 | 0.40 |
| 1986 | 638 | #368 | 0.37 |
| 1985 | 549 | #410 | 0.32 |
| 1984 | 464 | #447 | 0.28 |
| 1983 | 463 | #444 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 455 | #463 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 455 | #466 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 478 | #447 | 0.29 |
| 1979 | 487 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 1978 | 429 | #460 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 405 | #476 | 0.26 |
| 1976 | 376 | #487 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 346 | #513 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 300 | #555 | 0.20 |
| 1973 | 268 | #588 | 0.18 |
| 1972 | 262 | #607 | 0.17 |
| 1971 | 265 | #627 | 0.16 |
| 1970 | 229 | #688 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 138 | #897 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 134 | #888 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 119 | #935 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 112 | #960 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 182 | #738 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 199 | #737 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 161 | #819 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 118 | #985 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 147 | #879 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 102 | #1,062 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 104 | #1,047 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 109 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 62 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,465 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,954 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,946 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,683 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alyson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alyson has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alyson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alyson, and how old are they?
28,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 29,740 Americans ever recorded as Alyson. The median Alyson alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 25,713 people named Alyson (25,672 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,881 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,160 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,890 |
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 Alyson born?
The states with the most babies named Alyson are Texas, California and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29 | #984 | 1.0× |
| California | 21 | #1,186 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,173 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #906 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 8 | #753 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,666 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,369 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,461 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,062 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,138 | 0.8× |
Where Alyson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alyson is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1944 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 Alyson 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 533,870 babies since 1880, Alyson is the fourth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 157 of their 4,205 babies (3.7%), 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 Alyson
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 Alyson and names like it
- Compare Alyson and AllisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlyson peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alyson since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Alyson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alyson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.