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Alyshia vs Alysia

American parents have registered 9,498 Alysias since 1880, against 1,297 Alyshias. Alysia is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alyshia against Alysia, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alyshia Alysia

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

Alysia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Alyshia had 105 and Alysia had 348.

Side by side

  Alyshia Alysia
Total US births 1,2979,498
Most in one year 105386
Babies in 2025 under 528
Estimated living today 1,3009,200
Median age today 3333
Peak year 19901989
Best rank 1,479th girls571st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,758th
First recorded 19701950
Girls / boys 1,297 / 09,498 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Alyshia Alysia
England and Wales 143676
Scotland 36

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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