Alysse
Feminine · “noble kind”
The ending of Alysse borrows a French look that French would not recognize. Two s's and a silent e make the name look like it came from Paris, and the effect is real even though the ancestry is not. The word it sits closest to is genuinely interesting: alyssum is a small white flower whose Greek name means against madness, because it was thought to cure the bite of a rabid dog.
How old is the name Alysse?
Alysse first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Alysse alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 1,500 people named Alysse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alysse most popular?
Alysse peaked in 1988, reaching #1541 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 11,667 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alysse
The story of Alysse
Alice came into English from French in the Middle Ages and remained one of the standard women's names of the language. Alyssa arrived separately and much later, and it looks like a Latin flower name because it is one — alyssum was named by Greek physicians for what they believed it did. Once both were in circulation, American naming produced a whole family of spellings that draw on either or both, and Alysse is among the most compact of them. The double s and final e are the American contribution, and they mark the name as a deliberate choice rather than a default.
Meaningscholars disagree
noble kind, or the flower called alyssum
Two lines run into this name. One is Alice, from the Germanic Adalheidis — noble kind. The other is alyssum, from Greek a-, without, and lyssa, rage or madness: the plant was prescribed against rabies in antiquity, and the name records the prescription. Modern spellings of this name family draw on both, and no spelling settles which.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Alice
- Alyssa
- Alysse
Related forms: Alice · Adelheid · Alysson
Pronouncing Alysse
uh-LEECE
Two syllables with the stress at the back, ending in a plain s sound. Some families say uh-LISS instead, with a short vowel, and both are current. The final e is silent in every version.
Nicknames for Alysse
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 198886 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1541reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −25.0%6 in 2025, from 8
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.
Alysse in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alice in French — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alysson in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Alysses among us
people named Alysse are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Alysse
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alysse
- #13208
- Alysse on the 2025 chart
- #949
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alysse went to 6 girls in 2025, but Alisse is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 11, which makes it the 949th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,259 places above the chart.
- Alysse6
- Alisse5
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Alysse 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 Nicholle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alysse's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nicholle climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nicholle's path sketches the road Alysse is walking now.
Alysse 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
Alysse beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alysse in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is shorter than the names it sits among while sounding entirely at home with them.
- It has two respectable origins, and one of them involves a genuinely surprising piece of ancient medicine.
- Aly and Lyss both work and belong to different moods.
- Six letters with no difficult sounds in any accent.
- Alyssa, Alyse, Alice and Elyse all compete, so the spelling has to be given every time.
- The two possible pronunciations are both current, and a girl will be called by each.
- Its meaning cannot be given flatly, because two unrelated words meet in the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alysses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Alysse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alysse?
- Alysse is the most-used spelling in US records — 6 of the 11 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Alisse.
- How popular is the name Alysse in 2025?
- Alysse ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alysse?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Alysse — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alysse with classmates?
- Alysse will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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