Alyson
#1,388 for girls in 2025, 157 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 694 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 29,730since 1944
Alyson over time
Rank among girls' names. Alyson has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,388 | 157 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,231 | 191 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,199 | 200 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,199 | 201 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,028 | 247 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,063 | 233 | — | |
| 2019 | #939 | 281 | — | |
| 2018 | #887 | 305 | — | |
| 2017 | #832 | 326 | — | |
| 2016 | #799 | 356 | — | |
| 2015 | #680 | 419 | — | |
| 2014 | #594 | 496 | — | |
| 2013 | #577 | 498 | — | |
| 2012 | #541 | 555 | — | |
| 2011 | #480 | 620 | — | |
| 2010 | #510 | 588 | — | |
| 2009 | #480 | 642 | — | |
| 2008 | #483 | 654 | — | |
| 2007 | #524 | 595 | — | |
| 2006 | #472 | 668 | — | |
| 2005 | #470 | 652 | — | |
| 2004 | #456 | 658 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #444 | 675 | — | |
| 2002 | #447 | 647 | — | |
| 2001 | #456 | 607 | — | |
| 2000 | #463 | 599 | — | |
| 1999 | #433 | 635 | — | |
| 1998 | #410 | 658 | — | |
| 1997 | #414 | 632 | — | |
| 1996 | #397 | 668 | — | |
| 1995 | #396 | 662 | — | |
| 1994 | #372 | 700 | — | |
| 1993 | #364 | 699 | — | |
| 1992 | #399 | 643 | — | |
| 1991 | #442 | 576 | — | |
| 1990 | #358 | 741 | — | |
| 1989 | #354 | 725 | — | |
| 1988 | #374 | 643 | — | |
| 1987 | #346 | 694 | — | |
| 1986 | #368 | 638 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #409 | 549 | — | |
| 1984 | #447 | 464 | — | |
| 1983 | #444 | 463 | — | |
| 1982 | #463 | 455 | — | |
| 1981 | #466 | 455 | — | |
| 1980 | #447 | 478 | — | |
| 1979 | #429 | 487 | — | |
| 1978 | #460 | 429 | — | |
| 1977 | #476 | 405 | — | |
| 1976 | #487 | 376 | — | |
| 1975 | #513 | 346 | — | |
| 1974 | #555 | 300 | — | |
| 1973 | #588 | 268 | — | |
| 1972 | #607 | 262 | — | |
| 1971 | #627 | 265 | — | |
| 1970 | #688 | 229 | — | |
| 1969 | #897 | 138 | — | |
| 1968 | #887 | 134 | — | |
| 1967 | #935 | 119 | — | |
| 1966 | #960 | 112 | — | |
| 1965 | #738 | 182 | — | |
| 1964 | #737 | 199 | — | |
| 1963 | #819 | 161 | — | |
| 1962 | #985 | 118 | — | |
| 1961 | #879 | 147 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,063 | 102 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,047 | 104 | — | |
| 1958 | #994 | 109 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,550 | 48 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,319 | 62 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,334 | 57 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,465 | 47 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,648 | 36 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,297 | 54 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,528 | 38 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,720 | 30 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,627 | 33 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,953 | 24 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,946 | 25 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,860 | 24 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alyson! It came in at #4,574, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1945, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Alyson is popular in 1968
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#408 · 1 in 4,165
- New Jersey#509 · 1 in 4,826
- New York#530 · 1 in 4,866
- Pennsylvania#758 · 1 in 12,031
- California#1,092 · 1 in 13,982
Best ever in a state: #85 in Vermont, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #408 | 10 | 1 in 4,165 |
| New Jersey | #509 | 10 | 1 in 4,826 |
| New York | #530 | 28 | 1 in 4,866 |
| Pennsylvania | #758 | 7 | 1 in 12,031 |
| California | #1,092 | 11 | 1 in 13,982 |
| Texas | #1,161 | 6 | 1 in 15,655 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alyson
- 157 spots since 2024 (#1,231 → #1,388)
- 325 spots since 2020 (#1,063 → #1,388)
- 708 spots since 2015 (#680 → #1,388)
- Biggest jump: 556 spots in 1958 (#1,550 → #994)
- Biggest drop: 222 spots in 1966 (#738 → #960)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1987 at #346 (694 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 30 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 60 yrs · run 1961–2019
- Highest: 1 in 2,505 girls born in 1987 were named Alyson (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,237 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 22.2% of all girls named Alyson (6,614) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 118 | #1,627 (1949) | #2,606 |
| 1950s | 585 | #994 (1958) | #1,390 |
| 1960s | 1,412 | #737 (1964) | #890 |
| 1970s | 3,367 | #429 (1979) | #543 |
| 1980s | 5,564 | #346 (1987) | #412 |
| 1990s | 6,614 | #358 (1990) | #399 |
| 2000s | 6,397 | #444 (2003) | #470 |
| 2010s | 4,444 | #480 (2011) | #684 |
| 2020s | 1,229 | #1,028 (2021) | #1,185 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alyson in 1968
Top girls' names in 1968
More about 1968
girls
1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 12,242 of them was named Alyson, which outranked 89.2% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #883Collette136
- #883Edwina136
- #883Shanda136
- #887Alyson134
- #887Abby134
- #887Inez134
- #887Joseph134
- #893Carmella133
- #893Lela133
- #893Lucretia133
Tied with 5 names at #887; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.