Allister
Allister was given to 41 boys in 2025, #2,994 among boys’ names; 1,256 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Allister and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Allister by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Allister mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Allister is “a male given name from Scottish Gaelic.”
Anglicized from Alasdair, the Scottish Gaelic form of Alexander
/ˈælɪstɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Allister?
#2,994 among boys’ names, 2025
Allister fell from #2,643 in 2015 to #2,994 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born held at 24.0 per million.
76 babies in 2022, the peak
Allister peaked in 2022, when 76 boys were given it, #1,999 among boys’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #2,994 | 24.0 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,595 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,616 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 76 | #1,999 | 43.5 |
| 2021 | 74 | #1,999 | 42.3 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,190 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,215 | 35.1 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,579 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,389 | 29.2 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,134 | 34.3 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,643 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,090 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,847 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,450 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,168 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,711 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,475 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,902 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,500 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,222 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,628 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,820 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,865 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,060 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,673 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,576 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,763 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,861 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,298 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,396 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,053 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #6,986 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,240 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,663 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,529 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,408 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,617 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,913 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,731 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,944 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,561 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,930 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,239 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,491 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,076 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,160 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,949 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,482 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,802 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,856 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,969 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,664 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,284 | 4.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #3,951 | 2.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,165 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,705 | 8.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,746 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Allister a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Allister has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Allister: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Allister, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,256 Americans ever recorded as Allister. The median Allister alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,080 people named Allister (79 women and girls, 1,001 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 880 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 288 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 709 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,038 babies since 1880, Allister is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 216 babies (19%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Allister
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Allister and names like it
- Compare Allister and AlisterBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAllister peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Allister since 1910.
- Scottish Gaelic namesWiktionary’s origin for Allister: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Allister.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Allister alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.