Alam

#4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births

Peak · boys
2024 · 32 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
370
since 1991

Alam over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alam has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202003boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#4,53922
2024#3,52432
2023#4,88620
2022#5,87415
2021#7,08911
2020#7,50210
2019#10,8036
2018#8,8198
2017#8,1409
2016#9,6647
2015#8,7448
2014#10,7176
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2012#12,2745
2011#8,0799
2010#12,2315
2009#10,9946
2008#7,18711
2007#8,1739
2006#7,9989
2005#5,87513
2004#5,24615
2003#4,81516
2002#7,6438
2001#4,12119
2000#4,06619
1999#5,31712
1998#5,84010
1997#6,1009
1996#7,9716
1995#5,50110
1994#6,9687
1993#6,8167
1992#8,4355
1991#7,2716
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five boys were named Alam! It came in at #7,271, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2012–2013, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alam is popular in 2003

No state had 5 or more boys named Alam in 2003, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alam
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 1,015 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #4,539)
  • 2,963 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #4,539)
  • 4,205 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #4,539)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2024 at #3,524 (32 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 53,840
  • Highest: 1 in 53,840 boys born in 2024 were named Alam (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 33.8% of all boys named Alam (125) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s72#5,317 (1999)#6,691
2000s125#4,066 (2000)#6,612
2010s63#8,079 (2011)#9,941
2020s110#3,524 (2024)#5,569

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.

Alam in 2003

boys
#4,815
16 births · 1 in 123,459 boys

Top boys' names in 2003

  1. #1Jacob29,658
  2. #2Michael27,129
  3. #3Joshua25,106
  4. #4Matthew24,011
  5. #5Andrew22,162
  6. #6Joseph21,394
  7. #7Ethan21,362
  8. #8Daniel21,072
  9. #9Christopher20,753
  10. #10Anthony20,149
  11. #4,815Alam16
More about 2003

boys

1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 123,459 of them was named Alam, which outranked 62.3% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alam
  1. #4,616Yisrael17
  2. #4,616Zakir17
  3. #4,616Zohaib17
  4. #4,815Alam16
  5. #4,815Aleck16
  6. #4,815Aleksei16
  7. #4,815Amariyon16
  8. #5,035Adain15
  9. #5,035Adams15
  10. #5,035Adrik15

Tied with 219 names at #4,815; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2002
Risers
  1. ↑ 790Maddox#1,372 → #582
  2. ↑ 762Jahir#1,571 → #809
  3. ↑ 519Yair#1,236 → #717
  4. ↑ 450Jamarion#1,094 → #644
  5. ↑ 413Aydan#1,154 → #741
Fallers
  1. ↓ 819Lisandro#898 → #1,717
  2. ↓ 621Shemar#970 → #1,591
  3. ↓ 362Jaheem#891 → #1,253
  4. ↓ 337Keandre#998 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 334Savion#568 → #902

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2003 →