Girl
Alison
The name Alison carries the meaning "Germanic adal (noble) + heid (kind), noble kind", with roots in Germanic. It is not as common as it was in the 1980s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1986 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
EtymologyDiminutive of Alice
GermanicGermanic "adal" (noble) + "heid" (kind) – "noble kind"
Births by decade
1900s
12
1910s
158
1920s
238
1930s
385
1940s
1,485
1950s
6,240
1960s
12,253
1970s
22,202
1980s
27,180
1990s
19,790
2000s
13,328
2010s
8,620
Peaked in the 1980s · 111,891 total U.S. births since 1900