Alyss
Girl · AL-is · Germanic
Alyss is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble kind”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Alyss mean?
Germanic: spelling of Alys; Welsh form of Alice
“noble kind”
The Welsh spelling of Alice, which comes from the Germanic name Adalheidis.
- Say it
- AL-is
Meaning borrowed from Alys.
Is Alyss a girl's or a boy's name?
Alyss is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alyss in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Alyss, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.
Half of all the girls named Alyss in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,661 girls in the US were given Alyss or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #77, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Alyss in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,892 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,666 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,645 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,060 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,853 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,961 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,149 |
Names like Alyss
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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