Allison
Allison places #103 across the country in 2025, drifting down from its high. Its record runs from 1908 through a 1994 peak, 319,119 children in all.
Allison’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Allison, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Allison since 1908
Allison peaked in 1994 at #34; #103 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Allison is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Allison runs strongest in Nevada at 0.36% in 2025, then Delaware and New Hampshire.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Allison
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Addison
#84 in 2025
Alana
#140 in 2025
Antonio
#176 in 2025 · Latin
Anthony
#46 in 2025 · Latin
Abigail
#41 in 2025 · Hebrew
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Nicholas
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Austin
#113 in 2025 · Latin
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About Allison
Where does Allison rank right now?
Allison places #103 across the country in 2025, drifting down from its high. The full curve since 1908 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Allison have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Allison keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Allison?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Addison, Alana and Antonio, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Allison’s free Name Kit
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