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Baby name
Alison
Girl
Origin of the name
Alison is a medieval pet form of Alice, from the Old French Alis, itself from the Germanic Adalhaid, whose first element, adal, means “noble.”
Classic name
116,886births since 1880
1980sgeneration
No. 101rank at its peak, in 1980
Where babies named Alison are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Alison is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Alison is most common in Connecticut (2.1 times), Massachusetts (1.9) and New Hampshire (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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