Alroy

Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117

Peak · boys
1953 · 13 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
110
since 1920

Alroy over time

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Rank among boys' names. Alroy has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201950peak #2,186, 1953boys
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First appearance
1920

The first year at least five boys were named Alroy! It came in at #3,815, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1921–1930, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alroy is popular in 1950

No state had 5 or more boys named Alroy in 1950, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alroy
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1990
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1920
  • Peaked 1953 at #2,186 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1956, 3 yrs 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 104,416
  • Highest: 1 in 104,416 boys born in 1932 were named Alroy (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 410,808 boys born in 1990 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,186 in 1953, was only 1 in 151,715 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 46.4% of all boys named Alroy (51) were born in this decade
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s11#3,815 (1920)#4,069
1930s27#2,465 (1932)#3,187
1940s11#3,173 (1946)#3,432
1950s51#2,186 (1953)#2,977
1960s5#3,930 (1965)#3,930
1970s0——
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1990s5#8,117 (1990)#8,117

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.

Alroy in 1950

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#3,329
6 births · 1 in 298,377 boys

Top boys' names in 1950

  1. #1James86,228
  2. #2Robert83,553
  3. #3John79,412
  4. #4Michael65,136
  5. #5David60,729
  6. #6William60,680
  7. #7Richard51,003
  8. #8Thomas45,596
  9. #9Charles39,095
  10. #10Gary33,737
  11. #3,329Alroy6
More about 1950

boys

1,790,262 boys got a published name in 1950; 1 in 298,377 of them was named Alroy, which outranked 20.7% of the 4,196 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alroy
  1. #3,021Yvonne7
  2. #3,021Zackery7
  3. #3,021Zigmund7
  4. #3,329Alroy6
  5. #3,329Acey6
  6. #3,329Albertus6
  7. #3,329Alphonsus6
  8. #3,681Abby5
  9. #3,681Abron5
  10. #3,681Achille5

Tied with 351 names at #3,329; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1949
Risers
  1. ↑ 744Ezzard#1,616 → #872
  2. ↑ 510Kelvin#1,085 → #575
  3. ↑ 447Nancy#1,297 → #850
  4. ↑ 420Samual#1,380 → #960
  5. ↑ 376Shaun#1,275 → #899
Fallers
  1. ↓ 371Sharon#885 → #1,256
  2. ↓ 369Melvyn#770 → #1,139
  3. ↓ 367Les#997 → #1,364
  4. ↓ 351Delmas#905 → #1,256
  5. ↓ 315Denzil#808 → #1,123

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

See the top 100 for 1950 →