How popular is “Alison” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alison” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alison” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alison” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alison” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alison” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alison” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alison” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1905	7	0.000016512	7		100%
1907	5	0.000010744	5		100%
1910	5	0.000008464	5		100%
1912	9	0.000009109	9		100%
1913	19	0.000016709	12	7	26%
1914	28	0.000019769	22	6	57%
1915	16	0.000008732	16		100%
1916	15	0.000007754	15		100%
1917	20	0.000009966	20		100%
1918	29	0.000013357	18	11	24%
1919	17	0.000008056	17		100%
1920	17	0.000007513	10	7	18%
1921	24	0.000010281	19	5	58%
1922	21	0.000009174	21		100%
1923	27	0.000011726	22	5	63%
1924	34	0.000014276	23	11	35%
1925	21	0.000009	14	7	33%
1926	22	0.000009582	22		100%
1927	25	0.000010779	25		100%
1928	33	0.000014596	28	5	70%
1929	14	0.000006386	14		100%
1930	24	0.000010795	24		100%
1931	27	0.00001283	21	6	56%
1932	35	0.000016578	35		100%
1933	26	0.000013004	26		100%
1934	56	0.000026964	50	6	79%
1935	35	0.000016747	35		100%
1936	51	0.000024548	51		100%
1937	44	0.000020651	38	6	73%
1938	43	0.000019434	43		100%
1939	44	0.000019969	44		100%
1940	42	0.00001824	42		100%
1941	35	0.000014365	35		100%
1942	85	0.000031115	78	7	84%
1943	67	0.000023737	67		100%
1944	82	0.000030482	77	5	88%
1945	125	0.000047118	120	5	92%
1946	220	0.000068851	214	6	95%
1947	233	0.000064681	233		100%
1948	273	0.000079073	268	5	96%
1949	323	0.000092689	316	7	96%
1950	360	0.000102759	353	7	96%
1951	418	0.000113472	418		100%
1952	445	0.000117167	440	5	98%
1953	492	0.000127671	492		100%
1954	626	0.000157258	619	7	98%
1955	545	0.000135738	545		100%
1956	592	0.000143583	592		100%
1957	573	0.000136359	567	6	98%
1958	993	0.000240209	993		100%
1959	1197	0.000287879	1197		100%
1960	1267	0.000305021	1267		100%
1961	1409	0.000340149	1409		100%
1962	1428	0.000353871	1422	6	99%
1963	1393	0.000351928	1388	5	99%
1964	1451	0.000373238	1451		100%
1965	1461	0.000402985	1461		100%
1966	959	0.000275919	959		100%
1967	901	0.000265398	895	6	99%
1968	904	0.000267581	904		100%
1969	1082	0.000311338	1077	5	99%
1970	1772	0.000491333	1764	8	99%
1971	2222	0.000647369	2210	12	99%
1972	1823	0.00058002	1808	15	98%
1973	1938	0.000642384	1928	10	99%
1974	2093	0.000688487	2079	14	99%
1975	2283	0.000756112	2267	16	99%
1976	2290	0.000754705	2273	17	99%
1977	2385	0.000750828	2372	13	99%
1978	2443	0.000769723	2433	10	99%
1979	2951	0.000886985	2938	13	99%
1980	2994	0.00086921	2980	14	99%
1981	2719	0.00078598	2704	15	99%
1982	2746	0.000782791	2726	20	99%
1983	2504	0.000723002	2491	13	99%
1984	2524	0.000723467	2512	12	99%
1985	2837	0.000794876	2829	8	99%
1986	3000	0.000843389	2975	25	98%
1987	2787	0.000772961	2771	16	99%
1988	2553	0.000690926	2540	13	99%
1989	2516	0.00065445	2489	27	98%
1990	2376	0.000601142	2363	13	99%
1991	2166	0.00055606	2153	13	99%
1992	2072	0.000539405	2065	7	99%
1993	2247	0.000595977	2241	6	99%
1994	2126	0.000571866	2121	5	100%
1995	1952	0.000533019	1952		100%
1996	1901	0.000521222	1901		100%
1997	1770	0.000488175	1763	7	99%
1998	1647	0.000447773	1642	5	99%
1999	1536	0.000415824	1527	9	99%
2000	1386	0.000366676	1381	5	99%
2001	1360	0.000363307	1360		100%
2002	1361	0.00036407	1361		100%
2003	1419	0.000373193	1413	6	99%
2004	1438	0.000376349	1433	5	99%
2005	1256	0.000326671	1256		100%
2006	1222	0.000308883	1217	5	99%
2007	1180	0.000295171	1170	10	98%
2008	1254	0.00031903	1247	7	99%
2009	1457	0.000381396	1448	9	99%
2010	1219	0.000329839	1219		100%
2011	1278	0.000349391	1272	6	99%
2012	1189	0.000325097	1184	5	99%
2013	1078	0.000295693	1072	6	99%
2014	1118	0.000301642	1118		100%
2015	967	0.000261287	967		100%
2016	973	0.000265217	973		100%
2017	816	0.000228175	816		100%
2018	770	0.000219005	770		100%
2019	758	0.000218385	758		100%
2020	699	0.000209245	699		100%
2021	658	0.000194218	658		100%
2022	698	0.000206318	692	6	98%
2023	653	0.00019721	653		100%
2024	673	0.000202193	673		100%

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