girls:
451 births since 1968
#5265 (8th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2006
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
456 births since 1968
#7283 (6th percentile)
The name Alis is the #7,283 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 456 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,265 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 451 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2006.
Alis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 2006 for boys). Birth data for Alis is available in 39 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (39 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alis reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #912) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alis ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 84.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alis reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #875) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Alis is pronounced as A-lihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LIHS, at 27.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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