Alize
Feminine · “the trade wind”
Alize is given to both — 5,334 girls and 350 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Alizé is a wind. In French les alizés are the trade winds — the steady easterlies that carried sailing ships across the Atlantic for four centuries — and the word names them and nothing else.
How old is the name Alize?
Alize first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Alize alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 5,300 people named Alize are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alize most popular?
Alize peaked in 1998, reaching #711 nationally. Today it ranks #2998, 2,287 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From alizé to Alize
The story of Alize
The trade winds blow steadily from the north-east in the northern tropics and the south-east below the equator, and they made sailing routes possible in a way nothing else did — the whole shape of Atlantic navigation follows them. French named them les alizés. The word became a girls' name in French use and reaches American records both that way and, more often, as a respelling of names that sound similar. A liqueur brand of the name has also carried it since the nineteen-nineties.
Meaningscholars disagree
the trade wind
French alizé names the trade winds, and its own derivation is uncertain; it may come from an older French word about smoothness or regularity, which would suit a wind that blows steadily in one direction. That the word means the trade wind is documented. In American use Alize also functions as a respelling of Alyssa, Alicia and Elise, none of which is related, and the record does not say which road a given Alize took.
How the name formed
- alizé
- Alize
Related forms: Alizé · Alizée
Pronouncing Alize
ah-lee-ZAY
Three syllables with the stress on the last, following French, where the accented e is fully sounded. American English often says uh-LEEZ with two syllables, silencing the ending, and both circulate.
Nicknames for Alize
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1987
- Most girls named
- 2002326 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #711reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- −3.5%55 in 2025, from 57
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alize in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alizé in French — same name
- Alizée in French — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Alizes among us
people named Alize are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 29,223 born in 2025 was named Alize
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alize
- #2998
- Alize on the 2025 chart
- #71
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alize went to 55 girls in 2025, but Alice, Alyse and Alyce and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 3,766, which makes it the 71st most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,927 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 427 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 29,223 for Alize itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Gaynell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alize's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gaynell climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gaynell's path sketches the road Alize is walking now.
Alize sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Alize is headed
Alize should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Alize beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alize in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A concrete and genuinely beautiful meaning — a named wind rather than an abstraction.
- Ali is a ready short form with a very long record of its own.
- Five letters, and easy for English speakers once the ending is settled.
- The French and American pronunciations differ by a whole syllable.
- A well-known liqueur carries the name, which comes up in adult settings.
- Alize, Alizé, Alizée and Alizay all circulate and none is standard in American use.
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Feminine · #2998 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Alizes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,300 people named Alize are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alize?
- Alize is one of 7 recorded spellings. Alice is the more common one — 3,547 births in 2025 against 55 for Alize.
- How popular is the name Alize in 2025?
- Alize ranks #2998 among US girl names in 2025, with 55 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alize?
- About 1 in every 29,223 US girls born in 2025 was named Alize — 55 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alize with classmates?
- Alize will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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