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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#743 · 1 in 5,058
- Ohio#1,215 · 1 in 11,462
- Texas#1,367 · 1 in 14,573
- California#2,032 · 1 in 29,502
Best ever in a state: #549 in Colorado, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Missouri | #743 | 6 | 1 in 5,058 |
| Ohio | #1,215 | 5 | 1 in 11,462 |
| Texas | #1,367 | 12 | 1 in 14,573 |
| California | #2,032 | 7 | 1 in 29,502 |
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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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 340,215 of them was named Alister, which outranked 13.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,470 names at #15,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 19,529 of them was named Alister, which outranked 88.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,679Jayse94
- #1,679Lenny94
- #1,679Stephon94
- #1,687Alister93
- #1,687Bryar93
- #1,687Chester93
- #1,687Dwight93
- #1,707Branch92
- #1,707Cornelius92
- #1,707Gavyn92
Tied with 19 names at #1,687; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.