first name
ALLISON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 280,746 people named Allison, 78.3% reported their origin as White, 12.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Allison peaked in 1994, when 8,163 babies got the name.
At least 322,944 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Allison by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #92. The largest share of babies named Allison, 34.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Allison is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Allison has been most common in Nevada (1.5×), New Hampshire (1.4×), and Alaska (1.4×), and least common in Mississippi (0.64×).
317,742 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Allison
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Allison, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Allison ranks #665 of 156,621, with 49,879 people. See Allison as a last name
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