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Alis

“noble” + “character”

unisexfemininemasculineLatin script

/ˈalɪs/ · Welsh (South Wales)

Origin: Old High German
8 language contexts: Spanish Welsh Danish +5 more
Follow the evidence: 6 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Alis

Alis is a unisex given name documented in Spanish, Welsh, Danish and 5 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old High German Adalheid via Old French, from the components “noble” + “character”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Aliş (Turkish), Alís (Icelandic), Älis (Estonian)

2 source accounts

Old High German origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “noble” + “character”

From Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheid, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”).

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Spanish originSource-reportedBorrowed from Spanish Alicia.

Borrowed from Spanish Alicia.

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (9)

Unisex usage · Wikidata Q16002525
Feminine usage in Welsh · Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Hanunoo · Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Masculine usage in Albanian · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Gallo · French Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Faroese · Polish Wiktionary: Alis

Explore all 8 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Alis” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q16002525.

All pronunciation details (4)

/ˈalɪs/ — Welsh (South Wales)
/ˈalɨ̞s/ — Welsh (North Wales)
[ˈʔa.lɪs] — Hanunoo
/ˈʔalis/ — Hanunoo

02 / Across borders

Where Alis is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Alis’s connections around the world.

6 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 2025: 34 girls (rank 4172).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Alis

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 34; applications; Rank #4,172
Peak year: 2025; 34 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Alis in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	6	6,246	observed
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	5	8,324	observed
1972	6	7,292	observed
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	6	7,984	observed
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	6	9,015	observed
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	7	8,318	observed
1986	8	7,749	observed
1987	10	6,788	observed
1988	8	8,391	observed
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	11	7,303	observed
1991	7	10,271	observed
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	9	8,719	observed
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	5	13,518	observed
1997	7	10,836	observed
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	9	9,479	observed
2000	10	9,163	observed
2001	10	9,351	observed
2002	7	12,187	observed
2003	15	7,207	observed
2004	11	9,264	observed
2005	10	10,128	observed
2006	12	9,286	observed
2007	8	12,676	observed
2008	14	8,529	observed
2009	9	11,459	observed
2010	10	10,451	observed
2011	7	13,347	observed
2012	20	6,341	observed
2013	16	7,372	observed
2014	11	9,517	observed
2015	18	6,721	observed
2016	17	6,901	observed
2017	15	7,442	observed
2018	13	8,146	observed
2019	14	7,716	observed
2020	13	7,969	observed
2021	29	4,607	observed
2022	28	4,793	observed
2023	24	5,248	observed
2024	25	5,148	observed
2025	34	4,172	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Alis” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Alis (born 2002) — Albanian singer (born 2002) source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Alis with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q16002525CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Alis

Separate records with matching spellings: Aliş (Turkish), Alís (Icelandic), Älis (Estonian)

2 source accounts

Old High German origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “noble” + “character”

From Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheid, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”).

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Spanish originSource-reportedBorrowed from Spanish Alicia.

Borrowed from Spanish Alicia.

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (9)

Unisex usage · Wikidata Q16002525
Feminine usage in Welsh · Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Hanunoo · Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Masculine usage in Albanian · Greek Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Gallo · French Wiktionary: Alis
Feminine usage in Faroese · Polish Wiktionary: Alis

Explore all 8 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Alis” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q16002525.

All pronunciation details (4)

/ˈalɪs/ — Welsh (South Wales)
/ˈalɨ̞s/ — Welsh (North Wales)
[ˈʔa.lɪs] — Hanunoo
/ˈʔalis/ — Hanunoo

Where Alis is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Alis’s connections around the world.

6 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 2025: 34 girls (rank 4172).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Alis

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 34; applications; Rank #4,172
Peak year: 2025; 34 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Alis in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	6	6,246	observed
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	5	8,324	observed
1972	6	7,292	observed
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	6	7,984	observed
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	6	9,015	observed
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	7	8,318	observed
1986	8	7,749	observed
1987	10	6,788	observed
1988	8	8,391	observed
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	11	7,303	observed
1991	7	10,271	observed
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	9	8,719	observed
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	5	13,518	observed
1997	7	10,836	observed
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	9	9,479	observed
2000	10	9,163	observed
2001	10	9,351	observed
2002	7	12,187	observed
2003	15	7,207	observed
2004	11	9,264	observed
2005	10	10,128	observed
2006	12	9,286	observed
2007	8	12,676	observed
2008	14	8,529	observed
2009	9	11,459	observed
2010	10	10,451	observed
2011	7	13,347	observed
2012	20	6,341	observed
2013	16	7,372	observed
2014	11	9,517	observed
2015	18	6,721	observed
2016	17	6,901	observed
2017	15	7,442	observed
2018	13	8,146	observed
2019	14	7,716	observed
2020	13	7,969	observed
2021	29	4,607	observed
2022	28	4,793	observed
2023	24	5,248	observed
2024	25	5,148	observed
2025	34	4,172	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q16002525CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: AlisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Alis

About Alis

Old High German origin

Where Alis is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Ailis

Ali

Alisa

Alison

Alli

Allis

Alys

Alice

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Alis

About Alis

Old High German origin

Where Alis is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Ailis

Ali

Alisa

Alison

Alli

Allis

Alys

Alice

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Alis

Old High German origin

Where Alis is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Alis

Old High German origin

Where Alis is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page