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Allean vs Allison

American parents have registered 322,944 Allisons since 1880, against 1,491 Alleans. Allison is still ahead, with 2,570 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Allean against Allison, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Allean Allison

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

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Allison for 133 years and Allean for 12 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Allean Allison
Total US births 1,491322,944
Most in one year 488,163
Babies in 2025 under 52,570
Estimated living today 320311,000
Median age today 7730
Peak year 19241994
Best rank 1,123rd girls34th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked103rd
First recorded 18891880
Girls / boys 1,491 / 0319,119 / 3,825

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 Alleans alive today are over 77; half the Allisons are over 30. That is 47 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: Allean and Allison.