How rare is the name Alysa?

6,451 people in the United States have the first name Alysa, about 1 in 46,819. It ranks #3,304 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALYSA

#3,304

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,451
About
1 in 46,819
This common or more
82.1%
Who bears it

Of the 6,451 people named Alysa, 61.4% reported their origin as White, 20.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.6% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Alysa peaked in 2001, when 325 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19532025
Peak year
2001
Births that year
325
In 2025*
9 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,050 babies have been given the name since 1953. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Alysa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,538. The largest share of babies named Alysa, 53.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#9,30533
1960s#4,620182
1970s#3,799334
1980s#2,454819
1990s#1,5382,340
2000s#1,6742,632
2010s#4,846622
2020s#12,68288
Baby boom 1946–641.2%
Generation X 1965–807.1%
Millennials 1981–9632.7%
Generation Z 1997–1253.4%
2013 and later5.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Alysa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alysa has been most common in Arizona (2.5×), Florida (2.2×), and California (2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.33×).

4,549 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Alysa

#3,302 Lei · 6,455#3,303 Sarita · 6,452#3,305 Bibi · 6,449#3,306 Jenelle · 6,437

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Alysa, most common first.

#195 Alyssa · 274,552#1,187 Alisa · 33,213#2,842 Alysha · 8,140#2,902 Alysia · 7,857#3,230 Alyse · 6,656#6,307 Allysa · 2,557#10,717 Alyza · 1,228#13,266 Alesa · 915

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