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.
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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 1,281 of them was named Alison, which outranked 98.8% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 396,996 of them was named Alison, which outranked 14.2% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).