Alyse
Feminine · “noble kind”
Alyse is a respelling of Alice, and Alice is a Germanic compound worn down by French. Adelheid was noble and kind; French shortened it to Aalis and then Alis, and English took what was left.
How old is the name Alyse?
Alyse first appears in US birth records in 1892 — 133 years ago. The typical Alyse alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 7,300 people named Alyse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alyse most popular?
Alyse peaked in 1988, reaching #545 nationally. Today it ranks #3028, 2,483 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alyse
The story of Alyse
Adelheid was a tenth-century Holy Roman empress and a saint, which put the name across Germanic Europe; French shortened it drastically, as French does, and Norman settlers carried Alice to England, where it was among the commonest women's names of the Middle Ages. It faded and returned, and the nineteenth-century books about a girl who falls down a rabbit hole kept it visible ever since. Alyse belongs to the recent wave of respellings and reaches the American record in the later twentieth century.
Meaning
noble kind
Germanic Adalheidis joins adal, 'noble', to heid, 'kind, sort, quality' — so the compound is closer to 'of noble sort' than to any single adjective. French wore it down to Aalis and then Alis, and English took Alice. The reading is documented and undisputed; Alyse is a modern respelling with a y and a final e.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Aalis
- Alice
- Alyse
Related forms: Alice · Alice · Adelheid · Alice
Pronouncing Alyse
uh-LEECE
Two syllables with the stress on the second and a soft s at the end — not the ALL-iss of the English Alice. The respelling changes the sound as well as the letters, which most respellings do not.
Nicknames for Alyse
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
- 1892
- Most girls named
- 1987364 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #545reached in 1988
- Change vs 2023
- −26.0%54 in 2025, from 73
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.
Alyse in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alice in English — spelling variant
- Alice in French — same name
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alice in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Georgia.
Alyses among us
people named Alyse are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 29,764 born in 2025 was named Alyse
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alyse
- #3028
- Alyse on the 2025 chart
- #71
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alyse went to 54 girls in 2025, but Alice, Alize 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 — 2,957 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 427 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 29,764 for Alyse 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 Mickey test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alyse's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mickey climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mickey's path sketches the road Alyse is walking now.
Alyse 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 Alyse is headed
Alyse 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.
Alyse beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alyse in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Germanic origin with a very long medieval record behind it.
- Aly is a ready short form shared with several well-established names.
- Two syllables and no genuinely difficult sounds.
- Alice is the standard spelling and is said quite differently, so this is not simply a respelling.
- Alyse, Elise, Alise and Alyce all circulate and are said two or three ways between them.
- The stress falls on the second syllable here and the first in Alice, which causes real confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alyses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,300 people named Alyse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alyse?
- Alyse is one of 7 recorded spellings. Alice is the more common one — 3,547 births in 2025 against 54 for Alyse.
- How popular is the name Alyse in 2025?
- Alyse ranks #3028 among US girl names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alyse?
- About 1 in every 29,764 US girls born in 2025 was named Alyse — 54 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alyse with classmates?
- Alyse will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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