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.
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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 2,791 of them was named Alyson, which outranked 97.6% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 396,996 of them was named Alyson, which outranked 14.2% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).