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Allie vs Allyne

American parents have registered 56,372 Allies since 1880, against 505 Allynes. Allie is still ahead, with 529 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Allie Allyne

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 1963, when Allie had 32 and Allyne had 5.

Side by side

  Allie Allyne
Total US births 56,372505
Most in one year 1,63721
Babies in 2025 529under 5
Estimated living today 38,000100
Median age today 1777
Peak year 20101917
Best rank 189th girls1,708th girls
Rank in 2025 569thunranked
First recorded 18801893
Girls / boys 53,251 / 3,121505 / 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 Allynes alive today are over 77; half the Allies are over 17. That is 60 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: Allie and Allyne.