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Alysia vs Alyssandra

American parents have registered 9,498 Alysias since 1880, against 848 Alyssandras. Alysia is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Alysia 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

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 2015, when Alysia had 48 and Alyssandra had 47.

Side by side

  Alysia Alyssandra
Total US births 9,498848
Most in one year 38652
Babies in 2025 288
Estimated living today 9,200840
Median age today 3315
Peak year 19892012
Best rank 571st girls3,169th girls
Rank in 2025 4,758th10,917th
First recorded 19501988
Girls / boys 9,498 / 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 Alysias alive today are over 33; half the Alyssandras are over 15. That is 18 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: Alysia and Alyssandra.