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Alysha vs Alyxandria

American parents have registered 9,601 Alyshas since 1880, against 600 Alyxandrias. Alysha is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alysha against Alyxandria, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alysha 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

Alysha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Alysha had 46 and Alyxandria had 19.

Side by side

  Alysha Alyxandria
Total US births 9,601600
Most in one year 63038
Babies in 2025 44under 5
Estimated living today 9,400590
Median age today 3225
Peak year 19901993
Best rank 410th girls3,052nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,459thunranked
First recorded 19651986
Girls / boys 9,601 / 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 Alyshas alive today are over 32; half the Alyxandrias are over 25. That is 7 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: Alysha and Alyxandria.