Alika
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to boys 52.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 635since 1971
Alika over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | — | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alika! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Alika is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#127 · 1 in 577
Best ever in a state: #98 in Hawaii, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #127 | 11 | 1 in 577 |
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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 Alika
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1980 at #2,729 (17 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 30 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 90,368 boys born in 2016 were named Alika (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 285,096 boys born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,729 in 1980, was only 1 in 104,938 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.4% of all boys named Alika (155) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2019, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 78 | #2,897 (1979) | #3,327 |
| 1980s | 134 | #2,729 (1980) | #3,434 |
| 1990s | 155 | #3,325 (1991) | #4,077 |
| 2000s | 125 | #4,573 (2000) | #6,125 |
| 2010s | 110 | #4,624 (2016) | #7,710 |
| 2020s | 33 | #7,034 (2020) | #8,961 |
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.
Alika in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 149,258 of them was named Alika, which outranked 49.7% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,215Yoel12
- #3,215Yvonne12
- #3,215Zacharias12
- #3,400Alika11
- #3,400Adrienne11
- #3,400Aleksandar11
- #3,400Alexei11
- #3,614Abdulla10
- #3,614Adriano10
- #3,614Adrion10
Tied with 213 names at #3,400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.