Aleck

Where Aleck comes from

The dictionaries list Aleck as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish usage, variant of Alec — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #971 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #758
    7 babies named Aleck — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish usage, variant of Alec.
Namesakes

No widely known Aleck turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.