Allyson
Allyson was given to 203 girls in 2025, #1,139 among girls’ names; 53,779 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 52,100 Americans named Allyson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 39.
Allyson dropped 225 places in 2025, the #6 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Allyson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Allyson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Allyson is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alison.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Allyson?
#1,139 among girls’ names, 2025
Allyson fell from #363 in 2015 to #1,139 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.51 to 0.13 per 1,000.
1,651 babies in 1998, the peak
Allyson peaked in 1998, when 1,651 girls were given it, #186 among girls’ names. The 203 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 203 | #1,139 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 290 | #914 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 265 | #974 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 332 | #844 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 414 | #696 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 450 | #642 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 477 | #628 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 557 | #559 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 641 | #486 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 773 | #423 | 0.44 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 908 | #363 | 0.51 |
| 2014 | 1,013 | #330 | 0.57 |
| 2013 | 1,008 | #323 | 0.57 |
| 2012 | 1,267 | #256 | 0.72 |
| 2011 | 1,213 | #265 | 0.69 |
| 2010 | 1,261 | #259 | 0.71 |
| 2009 | 1,318 | #251 | 0.72 |
| 2008 | 1,275 | #268 | 0.67 |
| 2007 | 1,262 | #270 | 0.66 |
| 2006 | 1,271 | #259 | 0.67 |
| 2005 | 1,271 | #257 | 0.69 |
| 2004 | 1,367 | #238 | 0.74 |
| 2003 | 1,306 | #249 | 0.71 |
| 2002 | 1,349 | #234 | 0.75 |
| 2001 | 1,221 | #262 | 0.68 |
| 2000 | 1,312 | #244 | 0.72 |
| 1999 | 1,483 | #207 | 0.84 |
| 1998 | 1,651 | #186 | 0.93 |
| 1997 | 1,335 | #225 | 0.77 |
| 1996 | 1,222 | #232 | 0.70 |
| 1995 | 1,291 | #218 | 0.73 |
| 1994 | 1,395 | #210 | 0.78 |
| 1993 | 1,345 | #212 | 0.74 |
| 1992 | 1,200 | #229 | 0.65 |
| 1991 | 1,141 | #245 | 0.61 |
| 1990 | 1,199 | #236 | 0.63 |
| 1989 | 1,120 | #243 | 0.61 |
| 1988 | 1,014 | #253 | 0.57 |
| 1987 | 962 | #262 | 0.55 |
| 1986 | 823 | #297 | 0.48 |
| 1985 | 665 | #356 | 0.39 |
| 1984 | 542 | #397 | 0.32 |
| 1983 | 458 | #449 | 0.27 |
| 1982 | 563 | #408 | 0.33 |
| 1981 | 492 | #431 | 0.29 |
| 1980 | 567 | #401 | 0.34 |
| 1979 | 551 | #397 | 0.34 |
| 1978 | 570 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 1977 | 562 | #376 | 0.37 |
| 1976 | 480 | #419 | 0.33 |
| 1975 | 455 | #435 | 0.31 |
| 1974 | 447 | #433 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 463 | #422 | 0.32 |
| 1972 | 403 | #460 | 0.26 |
| 1971 | 454 | #452 | 0.27 |
| 1970 | 360 | #528 | 0.21 |
| 1969 | 304 | #565 | 0.18 |
| 1968 | 262 | #593 | 0.16 |
| 1967 | 274 | #572 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 236 | #617 | 0.14 |
| 1965 | 453 | #445 | 0.26 |
| 1964 | 391 | #492 | 0.21 |
| 1963 | 316 | #546 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 315 | #552 | 0.16 |
| 1961 | 276 | #606 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 258 | #627 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 244 | #638 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 191 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 104 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 90 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 88 | #1,073 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 112 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 107 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 86 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 108 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 75 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 62 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,558 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,993 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Allyson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Allyson has been given almost only to girls: 21 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Allyson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Allyson, and how old are they?
52,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 53,779 Americans ever recorded as Allyson. The median Allyson alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 45,707 people named Allyson (45,604 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50,713 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,430 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,390 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,280 |
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).
Where are babies named Allyson born?
The states with the most babies named Allyson are Texas, Florida and California, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 35 | #841 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 35 | #517 | 0.9× |
| California | 22 | #1,152 | 0.9× |
| New York | 10 | #1,316 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,046 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,045 | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 6 | #736 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 6 | #796 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,458 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,044 | 1.1× |
Where Allyson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Allyson is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1945 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Allyson with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 536,487 babies since 1880, Allyson is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 203 of their 4,273 babies (4.8%), the fourth 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 Allyson
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Molli | 1,989 | |
| Sarina | 9,624 | |
| Christianna | 3,141 | |
| Magaly | 5,288 | |
| Jaymee | 2,230 | |
| Christiana | 10,938 |
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 Allyson and names like it
- Compare Allyson and AllisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAllyson peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Allyson since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Allyson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Allyson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.