Alyss — girls' name

What the Data Says About Alyss

The Social Security Administration has registered 413 babies named Alyss between 1984 and 2025, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alyss currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alyss performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Alyss shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Alyss in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alyss in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 413 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.