Allyson

Where Allyson comes from

The dictionaries list Allyson as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alison — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #1,993 among girls, 18 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1948
    Allyson Schwartz born
    American politician
  3. 1985
    Allyson Felix born
    American track and field athlete
  4. 1998
    Peak, #186
    1,651 babies named Allyson — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #423.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alison.
Namesakes
  • Allyson Felix · American track and field athlete, born 1985
  • Allyson Schwartz · American politician, born 1948
  • Allyson Swaby · Jamaican footballer, born 1996
  • Allyson Ponson · Aruban swimmer, born 1995
  • Allyson Maynard Gibson · Bahamian barrister, politician, and community rights advocate, born 1957

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.