Alpha

Where Alpha comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Alpha.

  • Vowel-ended
Alpha through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #309 among girls, with 26 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #301
    27 babies named Alpha, its best rank.
  3. 1938
    Alpha Condé born
    President of Guinea from 2010 to 2021
  4. 1946
    Alpha Oumar Konaré born
    President of Mali (1992 to 2002)
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #4,355.
  6. 1998
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Alpha Condé · President of Guinea from 2010 to 2021, born 1938
  • Alpha Oumar Konaré · President of Mali (1992 to 2002), born 1946
  • Alpha Oumar Djalo · French judoka, born 1996
  • Alpha Kaba · French basketball player, born 1996
  • Alpha Barry · politician from Burkina Faso, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.