Alison

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Alison is ranked 465th among girls in 2024 (673 births). Its best rank was 96th, in 1986.

Rank in 2024: #465up 6 from 2023
Births in 2024: 6730.04% of girls
Peak year: 19802,980 births
Best rank: #96in 1986
Since 1905: 116,237people given the name

Babies named Alison, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

116,237 girls have been named Alison in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 2,980 births — 0.18% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 292 → 465).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1980s alone account for 23%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Alison
1900s	12
1910s	134
1920s	198
1930s	367
1940s	1,450
1950s	6,216
1960s	12,233
1970s	22,072
1980s	27,017
1990s	19,728
2000s	13,286
2010s	10,149
2020s	3,375

In 1980, its biggest year

Alison was the 101st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1980 were Jennifer, Amanda, Jessica, Melissa and Sarah. See all of 1980.

Names that rose and fell with Alison

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.