Alpha
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#13,298
up +2,120 places
2025 births
6
up +1 births
All-time births
7,188
0% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1916
- 198 births
- Best rank
- #301
- in 1881
- First recorded
- 1880
- #310 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1924
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 134 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1916198#451Peak
- 1917191#469
- 1919189#487
- 1920188#505
- 1915182#455
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #301 in 1881 · peak births 198 in 1916
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 28% boys■ 72% girls
2,857 boys · 7,188 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 Alpha has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.