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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Alec

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#977

down −97 places

2025 births

234

down −40 births

All-time births

55,152

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1995
3,420 births
Best rank
#109
in 1994
First recorded
1880
#571 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1996
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
144 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19953,420#112Peak
  2. 19983,356#112
  3. 19943,322#109
  4. 19963,308#117
  5. 19973,137#123

Rank over time

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

Best rank #109 in 1994 · peak births 3,420 in 1995

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

55,152 boys · 337 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 Alec has ranked, decade by decade

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