Allie

What Allie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Allie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #255 in 2015, #569 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Allie?

US: Falling: down from #255 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #2195 in 2015, #2138 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1889, when 236 girls got the name (#145 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,038 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,483 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 baby girls in Scotland 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 LA (1.22 per 1,000 girls), NE (0.99 per 1,000 girls), WV (0.99 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Allie is #569 in the US and #2138 in England & Wales (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 Allie were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ellie6,176 US · 410 E&W
• Alaia2,318 US · 163 E&W
• Alia499 US · 49 E&W
• Aleia279 US · 19 E&W
• Ellia73 US · 12 E&W
• Ollie80 US · 3 E&W
• Aelia18 US · 4 E&W
• Alleia17 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 Allie

Girls

• Arianna#234Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #56 in 2015, #234 in 2025
• Ashlynn#980Variant of Ashlyn, meaning “dream, vision”^*
• Lexi#628Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #308 in 2015, #628 in 2025
• Aileen#799Variant of Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Keira#621“black, dark, little dark one”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Gavin#303Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #70 in 2015, #303 in 2025
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Damien#352Form of Damian, meaning “to tame”^*
• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Ivan#162Same root as John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Ayden#257Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*

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