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Allie vs Allysen

American parents have registered 56,372 Allies since 1880, against 580 Allysens. Allie is still ahead, with 529 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Allie Allysen

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 1973, when Allie had 28 and Allysen had 5.

Side by side

  Allie Allysen
Total US births 56,372580
Most in one year 1,63745
Babies in 2025 529under 5
Estimated living today 38,000570
Median age today 1721
Peak year 20102007
Best rank 189th girls3,601st girls
Rank in 2025 569thunranked
First recorded 18801973
Girls / boys 53,251 / 3,121580 / 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 Allysens alive today are over 21; half the Allies are over 17. That is 4 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 Allysen.