How Many People Are Named Alysa?

6,908

people named Alysa are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 49,476 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,050 babies named Alysa in Social Security records from 1953 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,054

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,703

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Peak Year

2001

325 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: Ι™-LIS-Ι™
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of ALICIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Alysa in English. Counting Alysa and these spellings together, about 366,719 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Alysa in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Alysa alive today is about 28 years old, and 63% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 33 in 2025.

Under 30 4,341
62.8%
30 to 59 2,475
35.8%
60 and over 91
1.3%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Alysa first appears in the records in 1953 and was given most often in 2001, to 325 babies. In 2025, 9 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1953 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Alysa has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #737, in 2001. In 2025 it ranked #10,152.

Girls
Rank in 2025#10,152
Best rank#737 (2001)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#941 in the 2000s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Alysa alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Alysa were born in California than in any other state: about 915 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Alysa was given 1.5 times as often in Arizona, 1.5 times in Florida and 1.4 times in California.

California 915
Texas 570
New York 345
Florida 336
Ohio 245
Illinois 218
Michigan 216
Pennsylvania 216
Arizona 136
Indiana 126
Washington 109
North Carolina 92
Georgia 92
Wisconsin 90
Virginia 85
New Jersey 85
Missouri 80
Colorado 65
Utah 49
Minnesota 46
Alabama 45
Tennessee 44
Massachusetts 36
Louisiana 34
Maryland 31
Iowa 26
Oklahoma 24
Oregon 22
Kentucky 22
Kansas 16
Mississippi 16
Nevada 11
Connecticut 11
South Carolina 6
Nebraska 6
West Virginia 6
Arkansas 5

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