# Allyson (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/allyson/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 53,779 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 21 / 53,758 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 53, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,213 | 265 |
| 2012 | 1,267 | 256 |
| 2013 | 1,008 | 323 |
| 2014 | 1,013 | 330 |
| 2015 | 908 | 363 |
| 2016 | 773 | 423 |
| 2017 | 641 | 486 |
| 2018 | 557 | 559 |
| 2019 | 477 | 628 |
| 2020 | 450 | 642 |
| 2021 | 414 | 696 |
| 2022 | 332 | 844 |
| 2023 | 265 | 974 |
| 2024 | 290 | 914 |
| 2025 | 203 | 1,139 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | 4,426 |
| 1973 | 6 | 4,523 |
| 1978 | 5 | 5,805 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,151 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 2,350 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 1999 | 4 | 3,225 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3,594 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |

## People named Allyson

- Allyson Felix, American track and field athlete
- Allyson Schwartz, American politician
- Allyson Ponson, Aruban swimmer
- Allyson Maynard Gibson, Bahamian barrister, politician, and community rights advocate
- Ally Brooke, American singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.