Alek
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #2,604 for boys in 2025, 50 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 138 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,563since 1916
Alek over time
Rank among boys' names. Alek has never cracked the top 900 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 | — | #2,604 | 50 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,970 | 79 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,668 | 102 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,750 | 95 |
| 2021 | — | #1,645 | 101 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,518 | 110 | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,507 | 113 |
| 2018 | — | #1,539 | 110 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #1,525 | 108 |
| 2016 | — | #1,501 | 113 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,317 | 134 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #1,362 | 125 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,305 | 132 |
| 2012 | — | #1,295 | 134 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,170 | 152 |
| 2010 | — | #1,278 | 136 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,331 | 130 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,271 | 137 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,152 | 154 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #1,127 | 153 |
| 2005 | — | #1,289 | 119 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,152 | 136 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,141 | 132 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,139 | 125 |
| 2001 | — | #1,010 | 148 | |
| 2000 | — | #973 | 154 | |
| 1999 | — | #944 | 154 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #1,017 | 133 |
| 1997 | — | #1,116 | 113 | |
| 1996 | — | #955 | 135 | |
| 1995 | — | #968 | 131 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #935 | 138 |
| 1993 | — | #1,118 | 101 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #1,262 | 80 |
| 1991 | — | #1,170 | 89 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,420 | 62 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,476 | 56 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,815 | 37 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,333 | 24 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,429 | 22 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,942 | 16 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
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| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
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| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
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| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
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| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alek! It came in at #2,543, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alek is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,681 · 1 in 42,040
Best ever in a state: #296 in Minnesota, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,681 | 6 | 1 in 42,040 |
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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 Alek
- 634 spots since 2024 (#1,970 → #2,604)
- 1,086 spots since 2020 (#1,518 → #2,604)
- 1,287 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #2,604)
- Biggest jump: 183 spots in 1994 (#1,118 → #935)
- Biggest drop: 161 spots in 1997 (#955 → #1,116)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1994 at #935 (138 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 31 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1994–1996
- Highest: 1 in 12,469 boys born in 1999 were named Alek (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,162 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #935 in 1994, was only 1 in 14,000 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.4% of all boys named Alek (1,388) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 15 | #2,543 (1916) | #3,356 |
| 1920s | 7 | #3,517 (1921) | #3,517 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 25 | #3,215 (1978) | #4,086 |
| 1980s | 198 | #1,476 (1989) | #3,388 |
| 1990s | 1,136 | #935 (1994) | #1,091 |
| 2000s | 1,388 | #973 (2000) | #1,159 |
| 2010s | 1,257 | #1,170 (2011) | #1,380 |
| 2020s | 537 | #1,518 (2020) | #1,859 |
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.
Alek in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 51,737 of them was named Alek, which outranked 78.6% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,790Rasheem38
- #1,790Rojelio38
- #1,790Tavares38
- #1,815Alek37
- #1,815Adams37
- #1,815Akil37
- #1,815Angus37
- #1,849Aharon36
- #1,849Aj36
- #1,849Allison36
Tied with 33 names at #1,815; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.