Girl · English pet form of Germanic names
Allie
Say it: AL-ee
Meaning
A pet form of Alice, Alison or Allison; Alice comes from Germanic adal 'noble' and heid 'kind, type'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A common full name around 1880 and popular again in the 1990s and 2000s.
Its wave through time
A revival, back after decades away
In the United States
- 53,197 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1888, about 1 in 801 girls
- 706 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Ally, Alli
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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