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Alyssa vs Alyxandria

American parents have registered 315,038 Alyssas since 1880, against 600 Alyxandrias. Alyssa is still ahead, with 680 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alyssa against Alyxandria, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alyssa 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

Alyssa 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 2023, when Alyssa had 930 and Alyxandria had 9.

Side by side

  Alyssa Alyxandria
Total US births 315,038600
Most in one year 14,05038
Babies in 2025 680under 5
Estimated living today 310,000590
Median age today 2525
Peak year 19991993
Best rank 11th girls3,052nd girls
Rank in 2025 453rdunranked
First recorded 19501986
Girls / boys 314,606 / 432600 / 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.

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