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Allison vs Chris - What's the difference?

allison | chris |

As proper nouns the difference between allison and chris

is that allison is while chris is a diminutive of the male given names christopher and, less commonly, of christian.

allison

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname; mostly of persons born before 1950.
  • taken into general use in the 1940s; usually interpreted as a spelling variant of Alison.

    • Quotations

    * 1956 : Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book One, Chapter 4, *: Allison MacKenzie's father, for whom the child had been named, died when she was three years old. * 1994 , She Walks These Hills , Scribner's , ISBN 0684195569, page 81: *: "Allison ?" Surely that was a girl's name. *: "It's after Davey Allison , the race car driver. He got killed right before the baby was born. Tracy and me wanted to honor his memory." It was a precise little speech. She must have explained the name many times.

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    chris

    English

    Proper noun

  • A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and, less commonly, of Christian.
  • A diminutive of the female name Christina and of its variant forms.
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