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Allison
Pronounced /ˈælɪsən/
Rank in 2024
#99
Born in 2024
2,622
Peak year
1994 · #34
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:8 in 2024 (#9,822)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,622 girls were named Allison, about 1 in every 615.
- It peaked in 1994 with 8,150 babies, ranked #34.
- It first shows up in the records in 1908.
- 316,525 girls have been named Allison since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Allison per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 1.9Gen X1965–80
- 3.9Millennials1981–96
- 3.4Gen Z1997–12
- 2.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 343 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 490 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 12,089 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen X: 48,478 babies, 1.90 per 1,000. Millennials: 109,730 babies, 3.89 per 1,000. Gen Z: 98,892 babies, 3.40 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 46,503 babies, 2.29 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a Middle English diminutive form of Alan, Alexander or Alice + -son.
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly before 1950 usage.
- (countable) A female given name from the Germanic languages, of 1940s and later usage, variant of Alison.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈælɪsən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Allison, CC BY-SA 4.0.