Alter
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#5,869
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
15
All-time births
408
4% of them in 2025
More common than
80%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2012
- 21 births
- Best rank
- #3,282
- in 1933
- First recorded
- 1915
- #3,838 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1996
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 49 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201221#4,537Peak
- 202515#5,869
- 200814#6,084
- 200413#5,827
- 200112#5,683
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #3,282 in 1933 · peak births 21 in 2012
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 96% boys■ 4% girls
408 boys · 18 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 Alter has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.