Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls
Origin: EnglishAlison is a female given name in English-speaking countries. It was originally a medieval French nickname for Alis / Alys, an old form of Alice derived with the suffix -on or -son sometimes used in the former French nicknames. The Middle English form was Alisoun.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Allison yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Allison has lost 52% in ten years, from a best rank of 30 in 2009 and a peak count of 8,150 back in 1994, down to 2,622 births at rank 99. Like Sarah and Anna it is paying the price of having been extremely common within recent memory, though its 320,344 births are concentrated in a much narrower window — nothing before 1908, and most of the volume between 1975 and 2010. The bearers are almost entirely American actors: Allison Janney, born 1959, Allison Williams, Allison Mack. Alyson Hannigan, born 1974, appears under a different spelling, and Drew Carey through a middle name. Spelling fragmentation across Allison, Alison, Allyson and Alyson makes the real usage higher than this line suggests, as with Elliot.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1908 | 6 | #1,873 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,415 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,663 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,621 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,547 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,130 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,257 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,536 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,206 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,412 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,922 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,754 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,438 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,113 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,896 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,142 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,120 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,279 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,673 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,786 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,438 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,026 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,028 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,687 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,056 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,440 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,307 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,321 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,497 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,439 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,401 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,592 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,383 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,388 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,327 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,175 |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,142 |
| 1946 | 85 | #908 |
| 1947 | 102 | #870 |
| 1948 | 130 | #741 |
| 1949 | 144 | #705 |
| 1950 | 157 | #681 |
| 1951 | 252 | #525 |
| 1952 | 255 | #534 |
| 1953 | 281 | #512 |
| 1954 | 290 | #521 |
| 1955 | 341 | #496 |
| 1956 | 402 | #462 |
| 1957 | 465 | #434 |
| 1958 | 987 | #284 |
| 1959 | 1,124 | #264 |
| 1960 | 1,068 | #277 |
| 1961 | 1,182 | #260 |
| 1962 | 1,313 | #241 |
| 1963 | 1,434 | #229 |
| 1964 | 2,077 | #181 |
| 1965 | 3,044 | #128 |
| 1966 | 1,768 | #184 |
| 1967 | 1,452 | #209 |
| 1968 | 1,536 | #202 |
| 1969 | 1,651 | #194 |
| 1970 | 2,630 | #133 |
| 1971 | 3,018 | #119 |
| 1972 | 2,797 | #115 |
| 1973 | 2,904 | #105 |
| 1974 | 2,959 | #99 |
| 1975 | 3,347 | #89 |
| 1976 | 4,028 | #67 |
| 1977 | 4,205 | #66 |
| 1978 | 3,864 | #75 |
| 1979 | 4,407 | #70 |
| 1980 | 4,868 | #59 |
| 1981 | 4,905 | #57 |
| 1982 | 5,171 | #58 |
| 1983 | 4,973 | #59 |
| 1984 | 6,040 | #51 |
| 1985 | 7,028 | #46 |
| 1986 | 7,575 | #42 |
| 1987 | 7,340 | #44 |
| 1988 | 7,145 | #46 |
| 1989 | 7,283 | #46 |
| 1990 | 7,134 | #48 |
| 1991 | 6,773 | #50 |
| 1992 | 6,903 | #48 |
| 1993 | 7,729 | #41 |
| 1994 | 8,150 | #34 |
| 1995 | 8,126 | #34 |
| 1996 | 7,455 | #38 |
| 1997 | 7,274 | #39 |
| 1998 | 7,861 | #38 |
| 1999 | 7,026 | #40 |
| 2000 | 6,315 | #44 |
| 2001 | 6,214 | #44 |
| 2002 | 6,239 | #44 |
| 2003 | 5,850 | #46 |
| 2004 | 5,873 | #40 |
| 2005 | 5,634 | #45 |
| 2006 | 5,564 | #47 |
| 2007 | 5,454 | #46 |
| 2008 | 6,241 | #32 |
| 2009 | 6,581 | #30 |
| 2010 | 5,867 | #38 |
| 2011 | 5,472 | #40 |
| 2012 | 5,427 | #38 |
| 2013 | 5,445 | #34 |
| 2014 | 5,476 | #39 |
| 2015 | 5,356 | #39 |
| 2016 | 4,782 | #50 |
| 2017 | 4,036 | #61 |
| 2018 | 3,693 | #70 |
| 2019 | 3,439 | #77 |
| 2020 | 3,159 | #80 |
| 2021 | 3,138 | #82 |
| 2022 | 2,711 | #101 |
| 2023 | 2,646 | #100 |
| 2024 | 2,622 | #99 |
