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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Al

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#6,822

up +2,194 places

2025 births

12

up +4 births

All-time births

17,079

0% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1959
440 births
Best rank
#285
in 1910
First recorded
1880
#526 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1951
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1959440#376Peak
  2. 1956398#372
  3. 1960392#398
  4. 1958387#396
  5. 1957386#393

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #285 in 1910 · peak births 440 in 1959

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

17,079 boys · 255 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Al has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.