Alisson

Alisson is a spelling variant of Allison, which developed from Alis, an Old French form of Alice, here linked to Alicia and glossed as ‘noble’. Alice goes back to the Germanic Adalheidis, from adal, ‘noble’, and heid, ‘kind’ or ‘type’. In medieval England, Alison was a pet form of Alice, appearing in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as the name of the Wife of Bath and of the young wife in The Miller’s Tale. The double-s spelling is used in Brazil, where the goalkeeper Alisson Becker is a well-known male bearer, and in the United States.