Allyson
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Allyson is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alison.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2K◐
- ECEcuador1 in 1.4K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈367K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 520 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
2.4M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Allison in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BR Brazil and 22 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alison.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #288 | 279,330 | 2.1M rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 279K | Allison | 520 |
| GB United Kingdom | #355 | 80,658 | 110K rec. | — | 5 | Allison | 202 |
| BR Brazil | — | 54,557△ | 31 rec. | 1 in 3.9K | 73K | Allison | 6 |
| AU Australia | #350 | 53,543 | 55K rec. | — | 87 | Allison | 212 |
| CA Canada | #293 | 44,754 | 44K rec. | — | 14 | Allison | 193 |
| FR France | — | 15,955△ | 25 rec. | 1 in 4.3K | 16K | — | 8 |
| EC Ecuador | #760 | 11,801△ | 193 rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Allison | 35 |
| IT Italy | #820 | 6,266 | 8.4K rec. | — | 50 | Allison | 61 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,842 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Allison | 72 |
| DE Germany | — | 4,345 | 5.6K rec. | — | — | Allison | 102 |
| RU Russia | — | 3,418 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Allison | 33 |
| EG Egypt | — | 2,938 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Allison | 16 |
Roughly 279K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English233K67%
- Portuguese58K17%
- Spanish17K5%
- 11K3%
- French6.1K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 233,494 | 67% |
| Portuguese | 58,495 | 17% |
| Spanish | 17,275 | 5% |
| 11,219 | 3% | |
| French | 6,071 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Allyson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Variant of Alison; from French/English.
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 18 |
| 1946 | 32 |
| 1947 | 53 |
| 1948 | 62 |
| 1949 | 66 |
| 1950 | 75 |
| 1951 | 108 |
| 1952 | 86 |
| 1953 | 107 |
| 1954 | 112 |
| 1955 | 88 |
| 1956 | 90 |
| 1957 | 104 |
| 1958 | 191 |
| 1959 | 244 |
| 1960 | 258 |
| 1961 | 276 |
| 1962 | 315 |
| 1963 | 316 |
| 1964 | 391 |
| 1965 | 453 |
| 1966 | 236 |
| 1967 | 274 |
| 1968 | 262 |
| 1969 | 304 |
| 1970 | 360 |
| 1971 | 454 |
| 1972 | 403 |
| 1973 | 463 |
| 1974 | 447 |
| 1975 | 455 |
| 1976 | 480 |
| 1977 | 562 |
| 1978 | 570 |
| 1979 | 551 |
| 1980 | 567 |
| 1981 | 492 |
| 1982 | 563 |
| 1983 | 458 |
| 1984 | 542 |
| 1985 | 665 |
| 1986 | 823 |
| 1987 | 962 |
| 1988 | 1,014 |
| 1989 | 1,120 |
| 1990 | 1,199 |
| 1991 | 1,141 |
| 1992 | 1,200 |
| 1993 | 1,345 |
| 1994 | 1,395 |
| 1995 | 1,291 |
| 1996 | 1,222 |
| 1997 | 1,335 |
| 1998 | 1,651 |
| 1999 | 1,483 |
| 2000 | 1,312 |
| 2001 | 1,221 |
| 2002 | 1,349 |
| 2003 | 1,306 |
| 2004 | 1,367 |
| 2005 | 1,271 |
| 2006 | 1,271 |
| 2007 | 1,262 |
| 2008 | 1,275 |
| 2009 | 1,318 |
| 2010 | 1,261 |
| 2011 | 1,213 |
| 2012 | 1,267 |
| 2013 | 1,008 |
| 2014 | 1,013 |
| 2015 | 908 |
| 2016 | 773 |
| 2017 | 641 |
| 2018 | 557 |
| 2019 | 477 |
| 2020 | 450 |
| 2021 | 414 |
| 2022 | 332 |
| 2023 | 265 |
| 2024 | 290 |
| 2025 | 203 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 81 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Allyson Schwartzb. 1948USAmerican politician
- Allyson Kay Duncanb. 1951USUnited States federal judge
- Allyson Maynard Gibsonb. 1957BSBahamian barrister, politician, and community rights advocate
- Allyson Downeyb. 1963USAmerican actress
- Allyson Felixb. 1985USAmerican track and field athlete
- Allyson Brownb. 1985GBBritish actor and singer
- Ally Brookeb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Allyson Ponsonb. 1995NLAruban swimmer
- Allyson Swabyb. 1996USJamaican footballer
- Ally Wollastonb. 2001NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 58 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46K | #959 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4K | #3,169 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.1K | #5,753 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2021 | 745 | #2,555 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 320 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 203 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 139 | #1,768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 106 | #15,121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 103 | #959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 515 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Allyson?
- We estimate roughly 367 thousand people bear Allyson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Allyson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 279 thousand people bear Allyson in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled allison.
- Where is Allyson most common?
- Allyson is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Allyson compared with other names?
- In the United States, Allyson is the 288th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Allyson a male or female name?
- Allyson is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Allyson mean?
- Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alison.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Allyson” — the 288th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.