Alister
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #1,688 for boys in 2025, 97 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 141 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,659since 1924
Alister over time
Rank among boys' names. Alister has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #1,688 | 97 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,650 | 102 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,701 | 99 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,330 | 141 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,763 | 91 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,556 | 106 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,698 | 93 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2017 | — | #1,510 | 110 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,599 | 102 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,815 | 82 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,230 | 60 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,250 | 57 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,415 | 52 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,261 | 57 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,531 | 30 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,551 | 30 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,561 | 30 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,375 | 22 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,675 | 19 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,813 | 13 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,142 | 14 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
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| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alister! It came in at #4,347, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alister is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#795 · 1 in 4,771
- North Carolina#1,028 · 1 in 8,554
- Ohio#1,074 · 1 in 9,727
- Texas#1,218 · 1 in 12,583
- Florida#1,491 · 1 in 16,112
Best ever in a state: #549 in Colorado, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #795 | 5 | 1 in 4,771 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 6 | 1 in 8,554 |
| Ohio | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 9,727 |
| Texas | #1,218 | 14 | 1 in 12,583 |
| Florida | #1,491 | 6 | 1 in 16,112 |
| California | #2,557 | 5 | 1 in 43,142 |
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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 Alister
- 38 spots since 2024 (#1,650 → #1,688)
- 132 spots since 2020 (#1,556 → #1,688)
- 127 spots since 2015 (#1,815 → #1,688)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 2022 at #1,330 (141 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,383 boys born in 2022 were named Alister (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,609 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.4% of all boys named Alister (736) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 5 | #4,347 (1924) | #4,347 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 48 | #4,162 (1988) | #5,640 |
| 1990s | 64 | #5,288 (1997) | #6,754 |
| 2000s | 170 | #3,551 (2009) | #5,478 |
| 2010s | 736 | #1,510 (2017) | #2,100 |
| 2020s | 636 | #1,330 (2022) | #1,615 |
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.
Alister in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 16,827 of them was named Alister, which outranked 89.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,502Shaurya111
- #1,502Tylan111
- #1,502Wren111
- #1,510Alister110
- #1,510Brigham110
- #1,510Caius110
- #1,510Clifton110
- #1,518Elam109
- #1,518Giuseppe109
- #1,518Karam109
Tied with 7 names at #1,510; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.