Allison

From a Middle English diminutive form of Alan, Alexander or Alice +‎ -son.

Allison

1. A patronymic surname​.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname; mostly of persons born before 1950.
3. A female given name taken into general use in the 1940s; usually interpreted as a spelling variant of Alison.
4. a small city in Iowa, USA, and the county seat of Butler County.

• 1956 Grace Metalious: Peyton Place, UPNE, 1999, →ISBN, Book One, Chapter 4,

  Allison MacKenzie's father, for whom the child had been named, died when she was three years old.

• 1994 Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills, Scribner's, →ISBN, page 81:

  "Allison?" Surely that was a girl's name.

  "It's after Davey Allison, the race car driver. He got killed right before the baby was born. Tracy and me wanted to honor his memory." It was a precise little speech. She must have explained the name many times.

• silanol

Borrowed from English Allison

• Hyphenation: al‧li‧son

Allison

1. A female given name.