Alysa
Alysa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 737th, in 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2001325 births
- Best rank
- #737in 2001
- Since 1953
- 7,041people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,041 girls have been named Alysa in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 325 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 325 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2000s alone account for 37%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2001, its biggest year
Alysa was the 737th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Alysa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kearapeak 1999
- Jasminpeak 2006
- Kierstenpeak 2005
- Kierstinpeak 2005
- Alyssapeak 1999
- Cinthyapeak 2005
- Keirstenpeak 2005
- Kyrstenpeak 1992
Other spellings in the data
- Alyssa313,912 ever
- Alisha56,811 ever
- Alissa38,490 ever
- Alisa34,578 ever
- Alysha9,557 ever
- Allyssa6,670 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.