Alastair
#2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 67 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,364since 1922
Alastair over time
Rank among boys' names. Alastair has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,145 | 67 |
| 2024 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #2,648 | 50 |
| 2021 | #2,277 | 61 |
| 2020 | #2,980 | 39 |
| 2019 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #2,674 | 46 |
| 2017 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #2,518 | 50 |
| 2015 | #2,600 | 47 |
| 2014 | #3,090 | 36 |
| 2013 | #3,661 | 28 |
| 2012 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #3,332 | 33 |
| 2008 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | #3,815 | 24 |
| 2004 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #3,819 | 16 |
| 1992 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
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| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
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| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alastair! It came in at #4,307, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1928, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alastair is popular in 1970
No state had 5 or more boys named Alastair in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alastair
- 225 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #2,145)
- 835 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #2,145)
- 455 spots since 2015 (#2,600 → #2,145)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 2025 at #2,145 (67 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 were named Alastair (0.00%)
- 30.8% of all boys named Alastair (420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 17 | #3,247 (1929) | #3,917 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,316 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 10 | #4,033 (1962) | #4,219 |
| 1970s | 48 | #3,282 (1970) | #4,432 |
| 1980s | 145 | #2,290 (1986) | #3,464 |
| 1990s | 152 | #2,999 (1992) | #4,188 |
| 2000s | 230 | #3,024 (2006) | #4,286 |
| 2010s | 420 | #2,186 (2017) | #2,975 |
| 2020s | 336 | #2,145 (2025) | #2,456 |
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.
Alastair in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 206,470 of them was named Alastair, which outranked 39.6% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,071Winthrop10
- #3,071Yves10
- #3,071Zvi10
- #3,282Alastair9
- #3,282Adron9
- #3,282Alcindor9
- #3,282Aldon9
- #3,521Abie8
- #3,521Adams8
- #3,521Adriel8
Tied with 238 names at #3,282; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.