Alanson

Last seen for boys in 1993 at #8,700

Peak · boys
1927 · 12 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
185
since 1912

Alanson over time

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Rank among boys' names. Alanson has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201927peak #2,408, 1927boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
1912

The first year at least five boys were named Alanson! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1912–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alanson is popular in 1927

No state had 5 or more boys named Alanson in 1927, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alanson
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1993
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 1927 at #2,408 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1928, 1 yr later
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 85,988
  • Highest: 1 in 85,988 boys born in 1912 were named Alanson (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 392,266 boys born in 1993 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,408 in 1927, was only 1 in 93,910 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 36.8% of all boys named Alanson (68) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s41#2,544 (1912)#3,015
1920s68#2,408 (1927)#3,377
1930s0——
1940s24#2,690 (1946)#3,230
1950s37#2,662 (1951)#3,468
1960s0——
1970s5#5,845 (1977)#5,845
1980s5#6,721 (1986)#6,721
1990s5#8,700 (1993)#8,700

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.

Alanson in 1927

boys
#2,408
12 births · 1 in 93,910 boys

Top boys' names in 1927

  1. #1Robert61,674
  2. #2John55,949
  3. #3James53,674
  4. #4William51,476
  5. #5Charles31,941
  6. #6Richard26,768
  7. #7George25,949
  8. #8Donald23,834
  9. #9Joseph23,503
  10. #10Edward19,115
  11. #2,408Alanson12
More about 1927

boys

1,126,915 boys got a published name in 1927; 1 in 93,910 of them was named Alanson, which outranked 49.9% of the 4,802 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alanson
  1. #2,298Ysidro13
  2. #2,298Zachary13
  3. #2,298Zeno13
  4. #2,408Alanson12
  5. #2,408Achille12
  6. #2,408Ada12
  7. #2,408Alfio12
  8. #2,523Abie11
  9. #2,523Alexis11
  10. #2,523Alfons11

Tied with 114 names at #2,408; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1926
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,863Lindbergh#2,436 → #573
  2. ↑ 966Lindy#1,353 → #387
  3. ↑ 601Sonny#1,565 → #964
  4. ↑ 467Akira#1,404 → #937
  5. ↑ 442Maria#1,432 → #990
Fallers
  1. ↓ 684Minoru#963 → #1,647
  2. ↓ 611Reno#825 → #1,436
  3. ↓ 406Hurley#916 → #1,322
  4. ↓ 356Adelbert#842 → #1,198
  5. ↓ 330Gardner#963 → #1,293

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

See the top 100 for 1927 →