Allister

Last seen for girls in 2014 at #14,558 · #2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
2022 · 76 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,250
since 1925

Allister over time

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Rank among boys' names. Allister has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201925boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,99141
2024#2,59551
2023#2,61450
2022#2,00076
2021#2,00074
2020#2,19063
2019#2,21363
2018#2,57949
2017#2,38854
2016#2,13465
2015#2,64146
2014#14,5586#3,09036
2013#2,84840
2012#3,45031
2011#3,16435
2010#3,70828
2009#3,47631
2008#4,90119
2007#4,49321
2006#4,22322
2005#4,63118
2004#5,81313
2003#7,8318
2002#7,0559
2001#5,66712
2000#4,57316
1999#4,76214
1998#6,8438
1997#7,2817
1996#4,39614
1995#4,05215
1994#6,9687
1993#6,2288
1992#5,6609
1991#6,5197
1990#4,40712
1989#3,61815
1988#3,91512
1987#3,73112
1986#5,9266
1985
1984#4,5528
1983#4,9077
1982#4,2349
1981#5,4686
1980
1979#4,0689
1978#4,1578
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1976#4,9356
1975#5,4645
1974#2,79913
1973#2,85712
1972#3,9637
1971#3,6588
1970#3,2829
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1927#2,70310
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First appearance
1925

The first year at least five boys were named Allister! It came in at #3,741, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1926, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Allister
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 396 spots since 2024 (#2,595#2,991)
  • 801 spots since 2020 (#2,190#2,991)
  • 350 spots since 2015 (#2,641#2,991)
Rise & fade · boys
97 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1925
  • Peaked 2022 at #2,000 (76 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,974
  • Highest: 1 in 22,974 boys born in 2022 were named Allister (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 35.8% of all boys named Allister (447) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s21#2,703 (1927)#3,532
1930s0
1940s0
1950s5#3,942 (1956)#3,942
1960s0
1970s77#2,799 (1974)#3,909
1980s75#3,618 (1989)#4,544
1990s101#4,052 (1995)#5,712
2000s169#3,476 (2009)#5,266
2010s447#2,134 (2016)#2,822
2020s355#2,000 (2022)#2,398

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Allister in 1925

boys
#3,741
6 births · 1 in 185,987 boys

Top boys' names in 1925

  1. #1Robert60,895
  2. #2John57,195
  3. #3William53,310
  4. #4James52,680
  5. #5Charles29,580
  6. #6George26,560
  7. #7Joseph24,613
  8. #8Richard23,269
  9. #9Edward20,090
  10. #10Donald19,193
  11. #3,741Allister6
More about 1925

boys

1,115,919 boys got a published name in 1925; 1 in 185,987 of them was named Allister, which outranked 23.1% of the 4,867 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Allister
  1. #3,408Yancy7
  2. #3,408Yoshinobu7
  3. #3,408Zach7
  4. #3,741Allister6
  5. #3,741Abell6
  6. #3,741Adley6
  7. #3,741Agostino6
  8. #4,197Abbie5
  9. #4,197Achilles5
  10. #4,197Acil5

Tied with 455 names at #3,741; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1924
Risers
  1. 548Okey#1,532#984
  2. 494Eddy#1,492#998
  3. 422Terrence#1,223#801
  4. 371Hughie#1,355#984
  5. 363Rexford#1,287#924
Fallers
  1. 444Baxter#916#1,360
  2. 429Adelbert#817#1,246
  3. 407Jonnie#925#1,332
  4. 406Faustino#984#1,390
  5. 387Deward#859#1,246

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1925