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The first name 
Allie

Allie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Allie – popular and common in the US

The name Allie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Allie ranks 289. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Allie. In the entire USA, approximately 42,528 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Allie. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Allie

What does the name 
Allie mean?

Originally, Allie was a diminutive of names like Alison or Alexandra. The meaning of Allie differs and is based on the name from which it was abbreviated.

What is a diminutive? A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of an object, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment.

Allie -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Allie annualy. This means that there have been girls named Allie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Allie have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Allie even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #118 in the list of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Allie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Allie 2022 among young parents?

Allie has never been ranked higher than #118. In 2022, she rivaled the 434 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 669 girls named Allie were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Allie were born, there have been 419 newborns who received this name.

Allie has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With five letters, the name Allie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, l, l, i and e

If you take all the letters in the name Allie – A, l, l, i and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Aleli or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Allie

If your name is Allie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Allie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Allie, you can simply say:

Apple

Lion

Lion

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Allie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Allie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Allie

Allie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Allie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Allie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
L
L
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Allie

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
L
L
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Allie sounds like this: