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Alleigh vs Allie

American parents have registered 56,372 Allies since 1880, against 628 Alleighs. Allie is still ahead, with 529 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alleigh against Allie, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alleigh Allie

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

Allie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Alleigh had 42 and Allie had 1,471.

Side by side

  Alleigh Allie
Total US births 62856,372
Most in one year 431,637
Babies in 2025 under 5529
Estimated living today 62038,000
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20122010
Best rank 3,644th girls189th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked569th
First recorded 19921880
Girls / boys 628 / 053,251 / 3,121

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.

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