Alysson
Feminine · “of noble kind”
Alysson is a spelling of Alison, which is a Norman French diminutive of Alice — and Alice itself is a shortening of a Germanic compound about being noble by kind.
How old is the name Alysson?
Alysson first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Alysson alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,600 people named Alysson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alysson most popular?
Alysson peaked in 2010, reaching #1992 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, 1,653 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alysson
The story of Alysson
Adalheidis was a tenth-century empress and saint whose name was shortened all over Europe — Alice in France and England, Adelheid in Germany, Aleida in the Low Countries. Alison was made in Norman French and was common in medieval England; Chaucer uses it twice. It faded and returned in twentieth-century America, where the spellings multiplied: Allison, Alison, Alyson, Alysson.
Meaning
of noble kind
From Germanic adal, noble, and heid, a kind or sort, giving Adalheidis; Norman French shortened it to Aalis and added the -on diminutive to make Alison. The name is a diminutive of a shortening of a compound.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Aalis
- Alison
- Alysson
Related forms: Alison · Alice · Adelheid
Pronouncing Alysson
AL-ih-suhn
Three syllables, first stressed. Every spelling of the name sounds the same.
Nicknames for Alysson
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
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 2010100 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1992reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −10.9%41 in 2025, from 46
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.
Alysson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alison in English — spelling variant
- Alice in French — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Alyssons among us
people named Alysson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Alysson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alysson
- #3645
- Alysson on the 2025 chart
- #415
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alysson went to 41 girls in 2025, but Alisson, Allisson and Allysson are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 689, which makes it the 415th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,230 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,333 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 39,202 for Alysson 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 Patrisha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alysson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Patrisha climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Patrisha's path sketches the road Alysson is walking now.
Alysson 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 Alysson is headed
Alysson 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.
Alysson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alysson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a documented line back to a tenth-century empress.
- Ally is a plain, current short form that works at any age.
- Chaucer used the name twice, which is about as good a medieval record as English offers.
- Allison and Alison are both far more written and this spelling will be corrected constantly.
- The -son ending reads as son of, which it is not.
- Allison, Alison, Alyson and Alysson are four live spellings of one name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alyssons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Alysson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alysson?
- Alysson is one of 4 recorded spellings. Alisson is the more common one — 580 births in 2025 against 41 for Alysson.
- How popular is the name Alysson in 2025?
- Alysson ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alysson?
- About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Alysson — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alysson with classmates?
- Alysson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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