Alisson
Feminine · “little Alice”
Alisson is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 7,044 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Alisson is the double-s spelling of a name that has been in use since Norman French speakers made a pet form of Alice — Alisoun — and handed it to medieval England and Scotland. Chaucer used that older spelling twice in the Canterbury Tales, for the carpenter's wife in the Miller's Tale and for the Wife of Bath. Six centuries later the three syllables still fall the same way in the mouth: AL-ih-sun, ending soft.
How old is the name Alisson?
Alisson first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Alisson is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 7,000 people named Alisson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alisson most popular?
Alisson peaked in 2025, reaching #511 nationally. Today it ranks #511, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alisson
The story of Alisson
The name arrived in English through Norman French, where Aalis or Alis — the everyday form of Germanic Adalheidis — picked up the affectionate ending -on. Alisoun turns up in English writing by the fourteenth century, and the name settled especially deep in Scotland, where it stayed in steady use for centuries. English-speaking families later favored the tidier Alison and Allison spellings, while Alisson, with its doubled s, took hold in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries; Brazil in particular uses it, there for boys as well as girls. Its recent American wave has been strongest in Texas, California and Florida, which is where that Latin American spelling and the long English name meet.
Meaning
little Alice — ultimately "noble"
Alison began as Alis (the Old French form of Alice) plus the diminutive ending -on. Alice itself comes from Germanic Adalheidis, from adal "noble" and heid "kind, sort".
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Aalis / Alis
- Alisoun
- Alison
- Alisson
Related forms: Allison · Alison · Alice · Alicia · Adelheid · Alisson
Pronouncing Alisson
AL-ih-sun
Three syllables, stress on the first, identical to Allison. Spanish-speaking families often say ah-LEE-son, with the weight on the middle syllable; both are in real use for this spelling.
Nicknames for Alisson
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 2025580 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #511reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +5.3%580 in 2025, from 551
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alisson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Allison in English — spelling variant
- Alison in English, Scots — spelling variant
- Alice in English, French — related form
- Alicia in Spanish — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alisson in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Alissons among us
people named Alisson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,771 born in 2025 was named Alisson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alisson
- #511
- Alisson on the 2025 chart
- #415
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alisson went to 580 girls in 2025, but Allisson, Alysson and Allysson are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 689, which makes it the 415th most-given girls’ name of the year — 96 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,333 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,771 for Alisson itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lizette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alisson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lizette climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lizette's path sketches the road Alisson is walking now.
Alisson is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Alisson is headed
Alisson looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 29% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Alisson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alisson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like Allison, a name nearly every American already knows, so it never needs to be pronounced twice.
- Ready-made short forms: Ali, Allie, Alis — all long established, none invented for the occasion.
- Works across English, Spanish and Portuguese without changing shape, which matters in bilingual families.
- A documented line back to medieval French and English, with the Alisoun spelling in Chaucer.
- Allison and Alison are the spellings most people default to, so the double s will be corrected on forms, rosters and coffee cups for life. Worth deciding now whether you will spell it out every time or let it slide.
- In Brazil and parts of Latin America, Alisson is given to boys as well as girls — the goalkeeper Alisson Becker is the best-known bearer worldwide. In the US the spelling is recorded for girls, but the name may read male to some.
- The nickname pool is crowded: Ali and Allie already belong to Alison, Allison, Alice and Alexandra, so a shared short form in one classroom is likely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alissons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,000 people named Alisson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alisson?
- Alisson is the most-used spelling in US records — 580 of the 689 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Allisson, Alysson and Allysson.
- How popular is the name Alisson in 2025?
- Alisson ranks #511 among US girl names in 2025, with 580 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alisson?
- About 1 in every 2,771 US girls born in 2025 was named Alisson — 580 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alisson with classmates?
- Alisson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Alisson
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