Meaning not yet researched.
Alyson: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 157 in 2025. Its best rank was #346 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #346 in 1987; #1,388 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alyson in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,388 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #346.
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Alyson: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 157 girls in 2025. Peak: #346 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 741 (1990).
In 2025, 157 US girls were named Alyson, making it the 1,388th most common girls’ name of the year, down 156 places from #1,232 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 191 girls named Alyson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #346, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 741, in 1990. For comparison, it was #680 in 2015 and #1,722 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alyson in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 29,740 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,614 babies named Alyson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,497 US girls were named Alyson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 356. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,237 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alyson ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #753 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Allison (322,944 babies since 1880), Alison (117,481 babies since 1880), Allyson (53,779 babies since 1880) and Alysson (1,569 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alys and Alycen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alys (1,359), Alycen (63).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alyson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 8 | #753 | #495 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #906 | #1,236 |
| Texas | 29 | #984 | #423 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,062 | #947 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,138 | #619 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,173 | #709 |
| California | 21 | #1,186 | #493 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,369 | #660 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,462 | #900 |
| New York | 7 | #1,666 | #856 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2024 | 191 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2023 | 200 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2022 | 201 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2021 | 247 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2020 | 233 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2019 | 281 | #939 | — | — |
| 2018 | 305 | #887 | — | — |
| 2017 | 326 | #832 | — | — |
| 2016 | 356 | #799 | — | — |
| 2015 | 419 | #680 | — | — |
| 2014 | 496 | #594 | — | — |
| 2013 | 498 | #577 | — | — |
| 2012 | 555 | #541 | — | — |
| 2011 | 620 | #480 | — | — |
| 2010 | 588 | #510 | — | — |
| 2009 | 642 | #480 | — | — |
| 2008 | 654 | #483 | — | — |
| 2007 | 595 | #524 | — | — |
| 2006 | 668 | #472 | — | — |
| 2005 | 652 | #470 | — | — |
| 2004 | 658 | #456 | 5 | #11,430 |
| 2003 | 675 | #444 | — | — |
| 2002 | 647 | #447 | — | — |
| 2001 | 607 | #456 | — | — |
| 2000 | 599 | #463 | — | — |
| 1999 | 635 | #433 | — | — |
| 1998 | 658 | #410 | — | — |
| 1997 | 632 | #414 | — | — |
| 1996 | 668 | #397 | — | — |
| 1995 | 662 | #396 | — | — |
| 1994 | 700 | #372 | — | — |
| 1993 | 699 | #364 | — | — |
| 1992 | 643 | #399 | — | — |
| 1991 | 576 | #442 | — | — |
| 1990 | 741 | #358 | — | — |
| 1989 | 725 | #354 | — | — |
| 1988 | 643 | #374 | — | — |
| 1987 | 694 | #346 | — | — |
| 1986 | 638 | #368 | 5 | #6,756 |
| 1985 | 549 | #410 | — | — |
| 1984 | 464 | #447 | — | — |
| 1983 | 463 | #444 | — | — |
| 1982 | 455 | #463 | — | — |
| 1981 | 455 | #466 | — | — |
| 1980 | 478 | #447 | — | — |
| 1979 | 487 | #429 | — | — |
| 1978 | 429 | #460 | — | — |
| 1977 | 405 | #476 | — | — |
| 1976 | 376 | #487 | — | — |
| 1975 | 346 | #513 | — | — |
| 1974 | 300 | #555 | — | — |
| 1973 | 268 | #588 | — | — |
| 1972 | 262 | #607 | — | — |
| 1971 | 265 | #627 | — | — |
| 1970 | 229 | #688 | — | — |
| 1969 | 138 | #897 | — | — |
| 1968 | 134 | #888 | — | — |
| 1967 | 119 | #935 | — | — |
| 1966 | 112 | #960 | — | — |
| 1965 | 182 | #738 | — | — |
| 1964 | 199 | #737 | — | — |
| 1963 | 161 | #819 | — | — |
| 1962 | 118 | #985 | — | — |
| 1961 | 147 | #879 | — | — |
| 1960 | 102 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1959 | 104 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1958 | 109 | #994 | — | — |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1956 | 62 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,685 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,597 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).