Alton
Alton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 110 births. Its best rank was 78th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1100.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1937836 births
- Best rank
- #78in 1904
- Since 1880
- 47,349people given the name
The story in the numbers
47,349 boys have been named Alton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1937, with 836 births.
The name has all but left use: 110 births in 2024, against 836 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 120 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 191 | |
| 1890s | 276 | |
| 1900s | 1,102 | |
| 1910s | 4,417 | |
| 1920s | 7,243 | |
| 1930s | 7,215 | |
| 1940s | 6,373 | |
| 1950s | 5,988 | |
| 1960s | 4,376 | |
| 1970s | 2,855 | |
| 1980s | 2,211 | |
| 1990s | 1,684 | |
| 2000s | 1,466 | |
| 2010s | 1,426 | |
| 2020s | 526 |
In 1937, its biggest year
Alton was the 173rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1937 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1937.
Names that rose and fell with Alton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johnniepeak 1928
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Tommiepeak 1947
- Odellpeak 1922
- Hershelpeak 1924
- Hiltonpeak 1920
- Collispeak 1952
- Ezellpeak 1951
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.