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Allison
Pronounced /ˈælɪsən/
Rank in 2024
#9,822
Born in 2024
8
Peak year
1917 · #737
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:2,622 in 2024 (#99)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 8 boys were named Allison, about 1 in every 214,414.
- It peaked in 1917 with 72 babies, ranked #737.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 3,819 boys 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
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,014 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 747 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 793 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 439 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 407 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 185 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 75 babies, 0.00 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.