Alison
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#476
down −11 places
2025 births
644
down −30 births
All-time births
116,886
1% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1980
- 2,980 births
- Best rank
- #96
- in 1986
- First recorded
- 1905
- #1,544 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1986
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 117 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19802,980#101Peak
- 19862,975#96
- 19792,938#102
- 19852,829#97
- 19872,771#100
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #96 in 1986 · peak births 2,980 in 1980
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
595 boys · 116,886 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Alison has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.