Aleck

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987

Peak · boys
1886 · 7 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,223
since 1884

Aleck over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Aleck has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201914peak #758, 1886boys
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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—
2024#8,9878
2023#6,51713
2022#9,8237
2021#6,33513
2020#5,45116
2019#6,10414
2018#5,10618
2017#5,78815
2016#5,31817
2015#4,89019
2014#4,53821
2013#3,49730
2012#4,53321
2011#3,99425
2010#4,24123
2009#6,09514
2008#4,26723
2007#3,44431
2006#3,38431
2005#3,61526
2004#3,63625
2003#4,81516
2002#3,90921
2001#2,93131
2000#3,42324
1999#3,83419
1998#3,48621
1997#2,98125
1996#3,67818
1995#3,19121
1994#4,29014
1993#3,81916
1992#4,56412
1991#5,9428
1990—
1989#6,9416
1988#6,4266
1987#4,5739
1986—
1985—
1984#6,3155
1983—
1982—
1981#6,2625
1980—
1979#6,0565
1978—
1977#5,8455
1976—
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1974#5,2275
1973—
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1971#4,3756
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1964#3,2827
1963#3,6466
1962—
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1958#3,2757
1957—
1956#3,9425
1955—
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1953#2,7099
1952—
1951#3,7145
1950#3,6815
1949#3,0197
1948#3,0107
1947#3,0967
1946#2,9197
1945—
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1943#3,2316
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1935#3,6455
1934#3,2776
1933—
1932#3,3616
1931#3,3906
1930#2,60910
1929#2,7669
1928#2,38712
1927#2,03416
1926#1,78719
1925#1,58323
1924#2,13215
1923#1,64422
1922#1,64422
1921#1,58823
1920#1,41627
1919#1,48124
1918#1,28630
1917#1,20332
1916#1,64619
1915#1,45422
1914#1,15325
1913#1,80310
1912#1,26814
1911#1,7405
1910#1,5895
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1891#9635
1890—
1889#7897
1888—
1887#8196
1886#7587
1885—
1884#9715
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First appearance
1884

The first year at least five boys were named Aleck! It came in at #971, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1884–1885, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Aleck is popular in 1914

No state had 5 or more boys named Aleck in 1914, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Aleck
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
  • Biggest drop: 61 spots in 1887 (#758 → #819)
Rise & fade · boys
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1884
  • Peaked 1886 at #758 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1888, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1886–1887
Share of babies · boys
1 in 15,797
  • Highest: 1 in 15,797 boys born in 1889 were named Aleck (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 215,361 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #758 in 1886, was only 1 in 15,826 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 19.8% of all boys named Aleck (242) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s25#758 (1886)#834
1890s5#963 (1891)#963
1900s0——
1910s186#1,153 (1914)#1,462
1920s188#1,416 (1920)#1,898
1930s33#2,609 (1930)#3,256
1940s34#2,919 (1946)#3,055
1950s31#2,709 (1953)#3,464
1960s13#3,282 (1964)#3,464
1970s21#4,375 (1971)#5,376
1980s31#4,573 (1987)#6,103
1990s154#2,981 (1997)#3,976
2000s242#2,931 (2001)#3,952
2010s203#3,497 (2013)#4,801
2020s57#5,451 (2020)#7,423

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.

Aleck in 1914

boys
#1,153
25 births · 1 in 26,190 boys

Top boys' names in 1914

  1. #1John37,947
  2. #2William29,753
  3. #3James26,262
  4. #4Robert21,188
  5. #5Joseph18,829
  6. #6George17,602
  7. #7Charles16,937
  8. #8Edward12,319
  9. #9Frank12,002
  10. #10Walter8,962
  11. #1,153Aleck25
More about 1914

boys

654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 26,190 of them was named Aleck, which outranked 69.3% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aleck
  1. #1,127Robin26
  2. #1,127Virgel26
  3. #1,127Wilhelm26
  4. #1,153Aleck25
  5. #1,153Adolfo25
  6. #1,153Algie25
  7. #1,153Audie25
  8. #1,188Alwin24
  9. #1,188Arlington24
  10. #1,188Aurelio24

Tied with 34 names at #1,153; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1913
Risers
  1. ↑ 817Gilmore#1,803 → #986
  2. ↑ 647Santos#1,580 → #933
  3. ↑ 546Lorenza#1,365 → #819
  4. ↑ 534Bobby#1,441 → #907
  5. ↑ 534Gino#1,441 → #907
Fallers
  1. ↓ 918Bernardo#950 → #1,868
  2. ↓ 692Eston#995 → #1,687
  3. ↓ 692Rolf#995 → #1,687
  4. ↓ 613Orson#995 → #1,608
  5. ↓ 458West#930 → #1,388

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

See the top 100 for 1914 →