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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Alto

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

561

peak year 1919

More common than

84%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1919
20 births
Best rank
#789
in 1897
First recorded
1881
#869 that year
Last recorded
1991
no later published record
Average birth year
1928
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
63 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191920#1,697Peak
  2. 191518#1,662
  3. 191617#1,774
  4. 191416#1,549
  5. 191716#1,902

Rank over time

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

Best rank #789 in 1897 · peak births 20 in 1919

Boys and girls

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

● 95% boys■ 5% girls

561 boys · 31 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 Alto has ranked, decade by decade

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