Ally

Where Ally comes from

Diminutives + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ally
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1962
    Ally Sheedy born
    American actress
  2. 1962
    Ally McCoist born
    Scottish association football player and manager
  3. 1985
    First appearance
    #5,348 among girls, 13 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1998
    Peak, #417
    636 babies named Ally — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #984.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Alice, Alison, Alexandra, and other names beginning with Al-[[]], from the Germanic languages or Ancient Greek.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Alfred, Albert, Alan, Alexander, and other names beginning with Al-[[]], from the Germanic languages, the Celtic languages, or Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Ally McCoist · Scottish association football player and manager, born 1962
  • Ally Sheedy · American actress, born 1962
  • Ally Walker · American actress, born 1961
  • Ally Maki · American actress, born 1986
  • Ally Wollaston · New Zealand cyclist, born 2001

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.