Allie

Where Allie comes from

Diminutives + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Allie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #144 among girls — 105 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #134
    146 babies named Allie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1970
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1985
    Allie X born
    Canadian singer
  5. 1987
    Allie Haze born
    American pornographic performer
  6. 2010
    The comeback
    Back to #189 after sinking to #3,774 in 1969.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Alice, Alison, and Alexandra or other names beginning with Al-, from the Germanic languages or Ancient Greek.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Alfred, Albert, Alan, and Alexander or other names beginning with Al-, from the Germanic languages, the Celtic languages, or Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Allie Haze · American pornographic performer, born 1987
  • Allie X · Canadian singer, born 1985
  • Allie Long · American soccer player, born 1987
  • Allie Grant · actress, born 1994
  • Allie Quigley · American basketball player, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.