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Alycia vs Alyssandra

American parents have registered 10,168 Alycias since 1880, against 848 Alyssandras. Alycia is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alycia against Alyssandra, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alycia Alyssandra

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

Alycia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1935 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Alycia had 59 and Alyssandra had 47.

Side by side

  Alycia Alyssandra
Total US births 10,168848
Most in one year 45852
Babies in 2025 248
Estimated living today 9,800840
Median age today 3415
Peak year 19902012
Best rank 520th girls3,169th girls
Rank in 2025 5,238th10,917th
First recorded 19351988
Girls / boys 10,168 / 0848 / 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 Alycias alive today are over 34; half the Alyssandras are over 15. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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