Entry № 461 · English origin

Allyson Allyson — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AL-ih-son /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Noble (Allyson Felix, most-decorated US track and field athlete ever)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "noble (allyson felix, most-decorated us track and field athlete ever)".

Allyson is a 20th-century American variant of Alison — diminutive of Alice, from the Old Germanic adal (noble).

Noble (Allyson Felix, most-decorated US track and field athlete ever) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Allyson
Transliteration
Allyson
Pronunciation
/ ˈæl.ɪ.sən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Allyson stands.

Allyson does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Allysons before her.

Real people
Allyson Felix
American Olympic sprinter.
born 1985
In fiction
Allyson
Various American TV roles.

Names connected to Allyson.

The number behind Allyson.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Allyson reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.