Alder

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #1,401 for boys in 2025, 130 births
Given to boys 95.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
2025 · 130 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,363
since 1915

Alder over time

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Rank among boys' names. Alder has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915boysat peak
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079#1,401130
2024—#1,423129
2023#15,1945#1,465123
2022—#1,447125
2021#12,2067#1,529115
2020#12,1427#1,74388
2019—#1,69893
2018—#2,02971
2017#10,6899#2,27058
2016#16,2155#1,93675
2015—#3,14936
2014—#2,66145
2013#14,5826#3,75327
2012—#3,23134
2011—#4,65920
2010—#3,89426
2009—#4,42922
2008—#5,48716
2007—#4,37522
2006—#6,90411
2005—#6,63411
2004—#4,60218
2003—#7,8318
2002—#9,3926
2001—#6,01311
2000—#8,2097
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Alder! It came in at #3,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1916–1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Alder is popular in 1915

No state had 5 or more boys named Alder in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alder
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 22 spots since 2024 (#1,423 → #1,401)
  • 342 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #1,401)
  • 1,748 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #1,401)
Rise & fade · boys
110 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,401 (130 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 13,139
  • Highest: 1 in 13,139 boys born in 2025 were named Alder (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 52.1% of all boys named Alder (710) were born in this decade
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s13#3,391 (1919)#3,392
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1980s11#6,426 (1988)#6,475
1990s12#7,560 (1998)#8,288
2000s132#4,375 (2007)#6,388
2010s485#1,698 (2019)#2,928
2020s710#1,401 (2025)#1,501

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.

Alder in 1915

boys
#3,392
6 births · 1 in 141,429 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #3,392Alder6
More about 1915

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848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 141,429 of them was named Alder, which outranked 22.7% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alder
  1. #3,082Yates7
  2. #3,082Younger7
  3. #3,082Ysabel7
  4. #3,392Alder6
  5. #3,392Acey6
  6. #3,392Adair6
  7. #3,392Agustus6
  8. #3,825Abb5
  9. #3,825Abert5
  10. #3,825Abran5

Tied with 432 names at #3,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. ↑ 691Eston#1,687 → #996
  2. ↑ 565Estill#1,545 → #980
  3. ↑ 545Garth#1,260 → #715
  4. ↑ 474Hiroshi#1,342 → #868
  5. ↑ 439Domingo#1,101 → #662
Fallers
  1. ↓ 674Gilmore#986 → #1,660
  2. ↓ 667Barnett#933 → #1,600
  3. ↓ 526Rose#884 → #1,410
  4. ↓ 517Toivo#855 → #1,372
  5. ↓ 461Sampson#949 → #1,410

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

See the top 100 for 1915 →