Alcides

#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births

Peak · boys
1966 · 9 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
534
since 1954

Alcides over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201954peak #2,784, 1966boys
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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#10,6956
2024#8,9878
2023#8,2559
2022#7,26211
2021#7,08911
2020#7,50210
2019#7,64310
2018#8,1549
2017#9,6967
2016#8,8168
2015#6,67612
2014#8,1309
2013—
2012#10,7706
2011#9,6007
2010#8,1399
2009#10,9946
2008#5,24917
2007#6,26213
2006#9,5857
2005#11,4725
2004—
2003#8,6437
2002#8,4567
2001#8,3397
2000#4,38917
1999#8,7046
1998#6,3149
1997—
1996#9,0155
1995#5,12411
1994#6,3728
1993#5,00211
1992#4,56412
1991#7,2716
1990#4,40712
1989#4,52711
1988#3,07917
1987#3,95911
1986#6,7215
1985#4,6988
1984#4,9737
1983#3,23013
1982#5,6196
1981#4,9617
1980#4,1349
1979#4,0689
1978#5,0596
1977#3,60610
1976#4,4187
1975#3,6599
1974#2,94612
1973#4,0547
1972#4,9865
1971#4,9075
1970#3,8367
1969#3,3148
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1967#2,9858
1966#2,7849
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1964#4,0395
1963#3,6466
1962#3,6406
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1960#3,0778
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1957#3,9935
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1955#3,8865
1954#3,8275
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First appearance
1954

The first year at least five boys were named Alcides! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1954–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alcides is popular in 1954

No state had 5 or more boys named Alcides in 1954, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alcides
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,708 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #10,695)
  • 3,193 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #10,695)
  • 4,019 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1954
  • Peaked 1966 at #2,784 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1968, 2 yrs 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 112,605
  • Highest: 1 in 112,605 boys born in 1988 were named Alcides (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,784 in 1966, was only 1 in 198,162 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 17.6% of all boys named Alcides (94) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s15#3,827 (1954)#3,902
1960s50#2,784 (1966)#3,355
1970s77#2,946 (1974)#4,154
1980s94#3,079 (1988)#4,590
1990s80#4,407 (1990)#6,308
2000s86#4,389 (2000)#8,154
2010s77#6,676 (2015)#8,625
2020s55#7,089 (2021)#8,298

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.

Alcides in 1954

boys
#3,827
5 births · 1 in 407,750 boys

Top boys' names in 1954

  1. #1Michael88,568
  2. #2Robert86,331
  3. #3James86,311
  4. #4John81,168
  5. #5David79,556
  6. #6William61,426
  7. #7Richard57,042
  8. #8Thomas47,159
  9. #9Gary37,920
  10. #10Charles37,463
  11. #3,827Alcides5
More about 1954

boys

2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 407,750 of them was named Alcides, which outranked 12.2% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alcides
  1. #3,452Yolanda6
  2. #3,452Zachariah6
  3. #3,452Zeferino6
  4. #3,827Alcides5
  5. #3,827Abbie5
  6. #3,827Abdon5
  7. #3,827Adelaido5

Tied with 533 names at #3,827; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1953
Risers
  1. ↑ 592Ricci#1,331 → #739
  2. ↑ 470Demetrius#1,357 → #887
  3. ↑ 382Crawford#1,378 → #996
  4. ↑ 310Gavin#1,139 → #829
  5. ↑ 296Dino#1,058 → #762
Fallers
  1. ↓ 504Arlin#878 → #1,382
  2. ↓ 347Adan#895 → #1,242
  3. ↓ 345Dayton#966 → #1,311
  4. ↓ 302Garey#966 → #1,268
  5. ↓ 293Bartholomew#975 → #1,268

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

See the top 100 for 1954 →