Alam
#4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 32 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 370since 1991
Alam over time
Rank among boys' names. Alam has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
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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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,961 · 1 in 22,349
Best ever in a state: #1,961 in Texas, 2024.
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| Texas | #1,961 | 8 | 1 in 22,349 |
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See more about Alam
- 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)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2024 at #3,524 (32 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 33.8% of all boys named Alam (125) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 72 | #5,317 (1999) | #6,691 |
| 2000s | 125 | #4,066 (2000) | #6,612 |
| 2010s | 63 | #8,079 (2011) | #9,941 |
| 2020s | 110 | #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 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 53,840 of them was named Alam, which outranked 75.3% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,455Yared33
- #3,455Yetzael33
- #3,455Yoan33
- #3,524Alam32
- #3,524Agasthya32
- #3,524Ahnaf32
- #3,524Akaay32
- #3,605Abrar31
- #3,605Adhrit31
- #3,605Amiel31
Tied with 80 names at #3,524; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.