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
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 130 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,363since 1915
Alder over time
Rank among boys' names. Alder has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #1,401 | 130 |
| 2024 | — | #1,423 | 129 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,465 | 123 |
| 2022 | — | #1,447 | 125 | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,529 | 115 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,743 | 88 |
| 2019 | — | #1,698 | 93 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,029 | 71 | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,936 | 75 |
| 2015 | — | #3,149 | 36 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,661 | 45 | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | — | #3,231 | 34 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,659 | 20 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,487 | 16 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,375 | 22 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
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| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
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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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#299 · 1 in 1,191
- Washington#576 · 1 in 3,015
- Colorado#608 · 1 in 3,138
- California#1,513 · 1 in 17,238
- Texas#1,962 · 1 in 24,179
Best ever in a state: #254 in Oregon, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #299 | 13 | 1 in 1,191 |
| Washington | #576 | 11 | 1 in 3,015 |
| Colorado | #608 | 8 | 1 in 3,138 |
| California | #1,513 | 11 | 1 in 17,238 |
| Texas | #1,962 | 7 | 1 in 24,179 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alder
- 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)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2025 at #1,401 (130 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,139 boys born in 2025 were named Alder (0.01%)
- 52.1% of all boys named Alder (710) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #3,391 (1919) | #3,392 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 11 | #6,426 (1988) | #6,475 |
| 1990s | 12 | #7,560 (1998) | #8,288 |
| 2000s | 132 | #4,375 (2007) | #6,388 |
| 2010s | 485 | #1,698 (2019) | #2,928 |
| 2020s | 710 | #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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 230,936 of them was named Alder, which outranked 30.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,090Zyaira8
- #11,090Zyelle8
- #11,090Zykia8
- #12,142Alder7
- #12,142Aabriella7
- #12,142Aaleeyah7
- #12,142Aamilah7
- #13,453Aadhyasri6
- #13,453Aala6
- #13,453Aaleigha6
Tied with 1,310 names at #12,142; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 19,615 of them was named Alder, which outranked 87.6% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,731Nestor89
- #1,731Olin89
- #1,731Zamari89
- #1,743Alder88
- #1,743Arnold88
- #1,743Axell88
- #1,743Azaiah88
- #1,758Amadeus87
- #1,758Constantine87
- #1,758Ezio87
Tied with 14 names at #1,743; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.