Alisson

What Alisson means

Variant of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”

variant of Alison || From Middle English Alisoun, from Old French Alison, itself from Alis +‎ -on, with Alis ultimately being from Old High German Adalheid or Adalhaid (“of noble kind”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Alisson” (revision 91413257) and “Alison” (revision 94534384), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Alisson?

US: Rising: up from #915 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 580 girls got the name (#511 that year). First in the US records in 1973.

How common

• About 1 in 2,771 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.93 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.85 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.8 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alisson is #511 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alisson were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Allison2,564 US · 9 E&W
• Alison644 US · 17 E&W
• Allyson203 US
• Alyson157 US
• Allisson62 US
• Alysson41 US
• Alizon9 US
• Allysson6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alisson

Girls

• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Emory#339Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Matilda#364Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025
• Alina#130Editor’s note Up from #173 in 2015 to #130 in 2025 in the US
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*

For a brother

• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Alonso#785Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #785 vs #1,897 in 2025
• Bruno#740“brown”^*
• Emery#814Editor’s note Down from #745 in 2015 to #814 in 2025 in the US
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alisson’s. Rank is US 2025.