Alys
Alys is a girl's name that peaked in 1920, when it was the 1,511th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,878th. About 750 Alyses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alys
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,359
- Estimated living today
- 750
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,511th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,878th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Alyses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,359 babies given the name since 1880, about 750 are alive — 55 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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.
Notable Alyss
- Alys, Countess of the Vexin (1160–1210)daughter of King Louis VII of France and his second wife Constance of Castile
- Alys Williams (born 1994)water polo player
People named Alys with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alys is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Alys peaked:
Alys elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Alys | 1,896 | 426th |
| France girls | Alys | 430 | 1,479th |
| Belgium girls | Alys | 23 | 1,179th |
| Scotland girls | Alys | 7 | 650th |
| Ireland girls | Alys | 4 | 716th |
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.
Alys: rank by region
In 2015, Alys was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Alys | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – 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.
Related names
Alys against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.