Alec
Alec is ranked 878th among boys in 2024 (273 births). Its best rank was 109th, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- #878down 37 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2730.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19953,420 births
- Best rank
- #109in 1994
- Since 1880
- 54,916people given the name
The story in the numbers
54,916 boys have been named Alec in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 3,420 births — 0.18% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 467 → 878).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 47%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alec | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 66 | |
| 1890s | 61 | |
| 1900s | 104 | |
| 1910s | 419 | |
| 1920s | 513 | |
| 1930s | 299 | |
| 1940s | 443 | |
| 1950s | 653 | |
| 1960s | 974 | |
| 1970s | 902 | |
| 1980s | 3,001 | |
| 1990s | 25,908 | |
| 2000s | 13,727 | |
| 2010s | 6,078 | |
| 2020s | 1,768 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Alec was the 112th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1995 were Michael, Matthew, Christopher, Jacob and Joshua. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Alec
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Austinpeak 1995
- Dakotapeak 1995
- Kishanpeak 1997
- Daquanpeak 1994
- Daultonpeak 1994
- Daltonpeak 1998
- Tylarpeak 1997
- Savonpeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.