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Alison vs Alisyn

American parents have registered 117,481 Alisons since 1880, against 728 Alisyns. Alison is still ahead, with 649 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alison against Alisyn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alison Alisyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1905 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Alison had 1,278 and Alisyn had 33.

Side by side

  Alison Alisyn
Total US births 117,481728
Most in one year 3,00035
Babies in 2025 6495
Estimated living today 111,000720
Median age today 3921
Peak year 19802002
Best rank 101st girls3,730th girls
Rank in 2025 476th14,942nd
First recorded 19051966
Girls / boys 116,886 / 595728 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alisons alive today are over 39; half the Alisyns are over 21. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alison and Alisyn.