Alastor

Where Alastor comes from

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair, Alastair, from Old Irish Alaxander.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alastor
  • Scottish Gaelic
Along the way
  1. 2011
    First appearance
    #10,808 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2024
    Peak, #1,902
    83 babies named Alastor — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.