Allison is a ♀ girl name.
Allison is a diminutive of the name Alice, which derived from Adelheid. It was already a common name in the Middle Ages in England and Scotland.
Allison means “noble natured”, “of noble type” or “noble person” (from Old High German “adal” = noble + “heit” = kind/sort/type).
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