Alison
#476 for girls in 2025, 644 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 2,975 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 3 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 116,886since 1905
Alison over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #476 | 644 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #465 | 674 | — | |
| 2023 | #471 | 654 | — | |
| 2022 | #458 | 692 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #473 | 660 | — | |
| 2020 | #440 | 699 | — | |
| 2019 | #413 | 758 | — | |
| 2018 | #400 | 770 | — | |
| 2017 | #383 | 816 | — | |
| 2016 | #343 | 974 | — | |
| 2015 | #338 | 967 | — | |
| 2014 | #292 | 1,118 | — | |
| 2013 | #298 | 1,072 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #275 | 1,184 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #253 | 1,272 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #269 | 1,219 | — | |
| 2009 | #228 | 1,448 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #275 | 1,247 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #290 | 1,170 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #271 | 1,217 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #260 | 1,256 | — | |
| 2004 | #229 | 1,433 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #233 | 1,413 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #232 | 1,361 | — | |
| 2001 | #233 | 1,360 | — | |
| 2000 | #231 | 1,381 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #202 | 1,527 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #188 | 1,642 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #173 | 1,763 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #166 | 1,901 | — | |
| 1995 | #162 | 1,952 | — | |
| 1994 | #153 | 2,121 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #141 | 2,241 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #147 | 2,066 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #142 | 2,153 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #132 | 2,363 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #119 | 2,488 | #2,416 | 27 |
| 1988 | #113 | 2,541 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #100 | 2,771 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #96 | 2,975 | #2,226 | 25 |
| 1985 | #97 | 2,829 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #110 | 2,512 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #116 | 2,491 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #111 | 2,727 | #2,426 | 20 |
| 1981 | #113 | 2,704 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #101 | 2,980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #102 | 2,938 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #123 | 2,433 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #122 | 2,372 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #118 | 2,272 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #127 | 2,267 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #135 | 2,079 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #146 | 1,928 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #162 | 1,808 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #143 | 2,210 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #187 | 1,763 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #269 | 1,077 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #291 | 904 | — | |
| 1967 | #284 | 895 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #270 | 959 | — | |
| 1965 | #221 | 1,461 | — | |
| 1964 | #226 | 1,451 | — | |
| 1963 | #234 | 1,389 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #225 | 1,421 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #231 | 1,409 | — | |
| 1960 | #246 | 1,267 | — | |
| 1959 | #254 | 1,197 | — | |
| 1958 | #281 | 993 | — | |
| 1957 | #380 | 567 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #359 | 592 | — | |
| 1955 | #378 | 545 | — | |
| 1954 | #344 | 619 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | #383 | 492 | — | |
| 1952 | #393 | 440 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #404 | 418 | — | |
| 1950 | #428 | 353 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | #449 | 316 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #497 | 268 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #557 | 233 | — | |
| 1946 | #540 | 214 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | #678 | 120 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #867 | 77 | #3,430 | 5 |
| 1943 | #965 | 67 | — | |
| 1942 | #873 | 78 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #1,294 | 35 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,114 | 42 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,079 | 44 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,091 | 43 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,160 | 38 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | #961 | 51 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,197 | 35 | — | |
| 1934 | #973 | 50 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | #1,442 | 26 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,213 | 35 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,686 | 21 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #1,607 | 24 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,301 | 14 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,502 | 28 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | #1,669 | 25 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,830 | 22 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,489 | 14 | #3,408 | 7 |
| 1924 | #1,811 | 23 | #2,641 | 11 |
| 1923 | #1,840 | 22 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #1,897 | 21 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,048 | 19 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | #2,063 | 17 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,029 | 18 | #2,543 | 11 |
| 1917 | #1,773 | 20 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,133 | 15 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,964 | 16 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,344 | 22 | #2,915 | 6 |
| 1913 | #1,766 | 12 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
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| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,538 | 7 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Alison! It came in at #1,538, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1911, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alison is popular in 1920
No state had 5 or more girls named Alison in 1920, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alison
- 11 spots since 2024 (#465 → #476)
- 36 spots since 2020 (#440 → #476)
- 138 spots since 2015 (#338 → #476)
- Biggest jump: 469 spots in 1934 (#1,442 → #973)
- Biggest drop: 224 spots in 1935 (#973 → #1,197)
- Debuted 1905
- Peaked 1986 at #96 (2,975 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 3 yrs · run 1985–1987
- Top 1,000: 86 yrs · run 1942–2025
- Highest: 1 in 546 girls born in 1979 were named Alison (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,496 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #96 in 1986, was only 1 in 577 (0.17%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.1% of all girls named Alison (27,018) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 12 | #1,538 (1905) | #1,800 |
| 1910s | 134 | #1,344 (1914) | #1,939 |
| 1920s | 198 | #1,502 (1928) | #2,048 |
| 1930s | 367 | #961 (1936) | #1,241 |
| 1940s | 1,450 | #449 (1949) | #783 |
| 1950s | 6,216 | #254 (1959) | #360 |
| 1960s | 12,233 | #221 (1965) | #250 |
| 1970s | 22,070 | #102 (1979) | #137 |
| 1980s | 27,018 | #96 (1986) | #108 |
| 1990s | 19,729 | #132 (1990) | #161 |
| 2000s | 13,286 | #228 (2009) | #248 |
| 2010s | 10,150 | #253 (2011) | #326 |
| 2020s | 4,023 | #440 (2020) | #464 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alison in 1920
Top girls' names in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
girls
1,198,289 girls got a published name in 1920; 1 in 119,829 of them was named Alison, which outranked 46.3% of the 5,767 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,899Zennie11
- #2,899Zillah11
- #2,899Zoa11
- #3,097Alison10
- #3,097Adina10
- #3,097Agusta10
- #3,097Alleyne10
- #3,340Adine9
- #3,340Adria9
- #3,340Adrianna9
Tied with 242 names at #3,097; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 152,051 of them was named Alison, which outranked 30.1% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,208Willey8
- #3,208Willim8
- #3,208Wyndham8
- #3,489Alison7
- #3,489Abelino7
- #3,489Acey7
- #3,489Acil7
- #3,815Abron6
- #3,815Ada6
- #3,815Adel6
Tied with 325 names at #3,489; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.