Alok

Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821

Peak · boys
1979 · 14 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
212
since 1968

Alok over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alok has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #3,018, 1979boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2023#10,8216
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2020#10,6056
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2012#9,7097
2011#10,8086
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2007#10,9216
2006#6,90411
2005#7,09610
2004#6,13812
2003#10,8945
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1990#7,1786
1989#5,6158
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1987#6,9515
1986#5,9266
1985#3,59912
1984#4,2159
1983#5,4846
1982#4,5938
1981#4,5098
1980#4,9407
1979#3,01814
1978#5,0596
1977#5,1236
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1974#4,1907
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five boys were named Alok! It came in at #3,673, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1969–1971, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Alok is popular in 1979

No state had 5 or more boys named Alok in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alok
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1979 at #3,018 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 122,967
  • Highest: 1 in 122,967 boys born in 1979 were named Alok (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 285,096 boys born in 2023 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 32.5% of all boys named Alok (69) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s6#3,673 (1968)#3,673
1970s46#3,018 (1979)#4,357
1980s69#3,599 (1985)#5,092
1990s22#7,178 (1990)#8,399
2000s44#6,138 (2004)#8,391
2010s13#9,709 (2012)#10,259
2020s12#10,605 (2020)#10,713

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.

Alok in 1979

boys
#3,018
14 births · 1 in 122,967 boys

Top boys' names in 1979

  1. #1Michael67,713
  2. #2Christopher50,659
  3. #3Jason50,369
  4. #4David42,053
  5. #5James39,351
  6. #6Matthew35,621
  7. #7John35,410
  8. #8Robert34,015
  9. #9Joshua31,120
  10. #10Brian28,659
  11. #3,018Alok14
More about 1979

boys

1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 122,967 of them was named Alok, which outranked 57.3% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alok
  1. #2,897Waymond15
  2. #2,897Wendall15
  3. #2,897Weylin15
  4. #3,018Alok14
  5. #3,018Albino14
  6. #3,018Amiel14
  7. #3,018Andrell14
  8. #3,168Aaren13
  9. #3,168Abbas13
  10. #3,168Adama13

Tied with 149 names at #3,018; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,228Tyrel#2,134 → #906
  2. ↑ 471Jace#1,186 → #715
  3. ↑ 387Chaz#1,371 → #984
  4. ↑ 311Tyrell#1,051 → #740
  5. ↑ 308Frederic#1,203 → #895
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,230Dequan#927 → #2,157
  2. ↓ 641Rahsaan#869 → #1,510
  3. ↓ 446Chip#989 → #1,435
  4. ↓ 308Rashaun#996 → #1,304
  5. ↓ 307Kenya#749 → #1,056

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

See the top 100 for 1979 →