Alyson
The girl's name Alyson has been in the national records since 1944, with 29,740 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,388th. About 29,000 Alysons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alyson boys named Alyson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 29,740
- Estimated living today
- 29,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 358th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,388th
- First recorded
- 1944
- Girls / boys
- 29,730 / 10
How old the living Alysons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 29,740 babies given the name since 1944, about 29,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 6,900 of them are children and 640 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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
Rare variant of Alison.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alysons
- Alyson Hannigan (born 1974)American actress and television presenter
- Alyson Stoner (born 1993)American actor, singer and dancer
- Alyson Reed (born 1958)American dancer and actress
- Alyson Noël (born 1965)American writer
- Alyson Annan (born 1973)Australian field hockey player
- Alyson Court (born 1973)Canadian actress
- Alyson Dudek (born 1990)American short track speed skater
People named Alyson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alyson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alyson is most concentrated in Utah (1.8×), Nevada (1.7×), New Jersey (1.6×), Massachusetts (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Alyson peaked:
Alyson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Alyson | 3,055 | 297th |
| Italy girls | Alyson | 829 | — |
| Scotland girls | Alyson | 401 | 165th |
| Belgium girls | Alyson | 219 | 292nd |
| Ireland girls | Alyson | 124 | 300th |
| England and Wales girls | Alyson | 63 | 1,755th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alyson | 3 | 344th |
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.
Alyson: rank by region
In 2009, Alyson was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Alyson | 532 | 5 |
In 2023, Alyson was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Alyson | 8 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Where Alyson lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 240 women called Alyson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Alyson | 30 | 0.051 | 1,680 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Alyson | 16 | 0.029 | 2,335 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Alyson | 5 | 0.016 | 2,669 |
| Almería | Alyson | 6 | 0.016 | 2,699 |
| Tarragona | Alyson | 6 | 0.014 | 2,956 |
| Pontevedra | Alyson | 7 | 0.014 | 2,144 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 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.
Related names
Alyson 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.