Talk:Allison Death/@comment-3025831-20140914102945/@comment-4598697-20150316003003

Allison started out a girls' name (in contrast to most -son names like Madison and Emerson) - it's a medieval French diminutive of Alice. But in the late 19th and early 20th century Allison was often used as a boys' name, probably since Allison is also a surname. (Marion is another name that started out as feminine but was later used as a masculine name. John Wayne's real name was Marion. I can't think of any famous male Allisons, though.)