Meaning not yet researched.
Allister: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,000 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,000 in 2022; #2,995 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Allister in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,995 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,000.
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Allister: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,000 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 76 (2022).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Allister, making it the 2,995th most common boys’ name of the year, down 400 places from #2,595 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 51 boys named Allister in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,000, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #2,644 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Allister in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 6 babies. In all, 1,256 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 453 babies named Allister.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 586 US boys were named Allister; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alister (1,664 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Allister in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 41 | #2,995 |
| 2024 | — | — | 51 | #2,595 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,617 |
| 2022 | — | — | 76 | #2,000 |
| 2021 | — | — | 74 | #2,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | 63 | #2,190 |
| 2019 | — | — | 63 | #2,216 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,580 |
| 2017 | — | — | 54 | #2,390 |
| 2016 | — | — | 65 | #2,134 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,644 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,693 | 36 | #3,092 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,849 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,453 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,169 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,712 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,477 |
| 2008 | — | — | 19 | #4,906 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,502 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,226 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,633 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #5,826 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #7,872 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,067 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,680 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,583 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,769 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,868 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,304 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,402 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,059 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #6,992 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,246 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,670 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,536 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,414 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,623 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,918 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,736 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #5,950 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,564 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,933 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,241 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,493 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,078 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,162 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #4,951 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,484 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,804 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,858 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #3,971 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,666 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,286 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #3,952 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,167 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,706 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,748 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).