Alec

Where Alec comes from

Clipping of Alexander.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alec
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Alec Douglas-Home born
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
  3. 1914
    Alec Guinness born
    British actor
  4. 1994
    Peak, #109
    3,322 babies named Alec — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #226.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish origin.
Namesakes
  • Alec Guinness · British actor, 1914–2000
  • Alec Douglas-Home · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964, 1903–1995
  • Alec Benjamin · American singer-songwriter, born 1994
  • Alec Jeffreys · British geneticist, born 1950

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.