Given name

Allistaire

Allistaire is a masculine given name from Scottish Gaelic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Allistaire comes from Scottish Gaelic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair.

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Allistaire’s family of names

In English usage, Allistaire has a related form in Alistair. In English usage, Allistaire was borrowed from the Scottish Gaelic form Alasdair.

Walk Allistaire’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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