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Alize

Alize reached its high-water mark in 2002 at number 744, and has been recorded 5,684 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,998th. About 5,600 Alizes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Alize boys named Alize

By the numbers

Total US births
5,684
Estimated living today
5,600
Median age today
21
Peak year
2002
Best rank
744th
Rank in 2025
2,998th
First recorded
1987
Girls / boys
5,334 / 350

How old the living Alizes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,684 babies given the name since 1987, about 5,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

A variant of Alizé.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Alizes

People named Alize with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Alize is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alize is most concentrated in Arizona (4.7×), New Mexico (4.7×), California (3.3×), Texas (3.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2002

The most popular girls’ names the year Alize peaked:

All the names of 2002

Alize elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Alize +1 spelling 2,205 508th
Belgium girls Alizé +1 spelling 100 904th
England and Wales girls Alize 49 3,899th
France boys Alize 10 3,993rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Alize: rank by region

In 2016, Alize was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Alizé 506 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Where Alize lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 427 women called Alize were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Bizkaia Alize 309 0.513 294
Araba/Álava Alize 35 0.202 526
Gipuzkoa Alize 44 0.117 702
Navarra Alize 11 0.032 1,727

Listed in 4 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 48 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Alize against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.