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Alyce vs Alyxandria

American parents have registered 17,539 Alyces since 1880, against 600 Alyxandrias. Alyce is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alyce against Alyxandria, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alyce Alyxandria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alyce has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Alyce had 50 and Alyxandria had 38.

Side by side

  Alyce Alyxandria
Total US births 17,539600
Most in one year 50338
Babies in 2025 38under 5
Estimated living today 6,700590
Median age today 6325
Peak year 19211993
Best rank 293rd girls3,052nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,832ndunranked
First recorded 18801986
Girls / boys 17,539 / 0600 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alyces alive today are over 63; half the Alyxandrias are over 25. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alyce and Alyxandria.