Alain
Last seen for girls in 1976 at #8,156 · #2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,980since 1942
Alain over time
Rank among boys' names. Alain has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,833 | 44 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,216 | 37 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,575 | 51 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,675 | 49 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,695 | 47 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,617 | 48 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,626 | 49 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,230 | 61 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,365 | 55 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,300 | 57 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,461 | 51 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,903 | 74 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,104 | 64 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,105 | 63 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,354 | 54 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,287 | 57 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,186 | 61 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,034 | 68 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,856 | 73 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,801 | 72 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,989 | 60 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,561 | 81 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,817 | 63 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,710 | 67 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,924 | 54 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,720 | 60 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,719 | 59 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,535 | 67 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,586 | 62 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,430 | 69 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,734 | 51 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,261 | 81 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,340 | 71 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,254 | 79 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,259 | 77 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,197 | 80 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,023 | 92 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,004 | 89 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,041 | 80 | |
| 1985 | — | #998 | 83 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,033 | 74 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,059 | 70 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,096 | 69 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,341 | 49 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,598 | 36 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,410 | 43 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,312 | 47 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #1,019 | 66 |
| 1975 | — | #1,191 | 50 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,244 | 45 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,329 | 39 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,285 | 42 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,214 | 46 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,260 | 43 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,221 | 42 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,087 | 46 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,345 | 32 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,360 | 32 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,114 | 47 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,279 | 37 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,311 | 35 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,686 | 23 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,486 | 29 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,588 | 25 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,724 | 21 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,673 | 23 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,608 | 24 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,044 | 15 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,630 | 22 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,135 | 13 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,701 | 19 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,337 | 11 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,218 | 12 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alain! It came in at #3,560, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1945, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alain is popular in 1942
No state had 5 or more boys named Alain in 1942, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alain
- 383 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #2,833)
- 216 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,833)
- 533 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #2,833)
- Biggest jump: 35 spots in 1985 (#1,033 → #998)
- Biggest drop: 43 spots in 1986 (#998 → #1,041)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1985 at #998 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 39 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1985
- Highest: 1 in 20,807 boys born in 1988 were named Alain (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #998 in 1985, was only 1 in 22,268 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.5% of all boys named Alain (738) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 53 | #2,218 (1948) | #2,748 |
| 1950s | 183 | #1,588 (1959) | #1,952 |
| 1960s | 358 | #1,087 (1967) | #1,317 |
| 1970s | 457 | #1,019 (1976) | #1,286 |
| 1980s | 738 | #998 (1985) | #1,106 |
| 1990s | 676 | #1,254 (1991) | #1,484 |
| 2000s | 656 | #1,561 (2003) | #1,917 |
| 2010s | 583 | #1,903 (2013) | #2,279 |
| 2020s | 276 | #2,575 (2023) | #2,769 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alain in 1942
Top boys' names in 1942
More about 1942
boys
1,381,161 boys got a published name in 1942; 1 in 276,232 of them was named Alain, which outranked 12.0% of the 4,044 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 484 names at #3,560; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.