Alcide
Alcide is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 695th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192439 births
- Best rank
- #695in 1886
- Since 1880
- 1,003people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,003 boys have been named Alcide in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 39 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alcide | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 55 | |
| 1890s | 43 | |
| 1900s | 48 | |
| 1910s | 220 | |
| 1920s | 248 | |
| 1930s | 132 | |
| 1940s | 114 | |
| 1950s | 58 | |
| 1960s | 22 | |
| 1970s | 11 | |
| 1980s | 13 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 27 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Alcide was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Alcide
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Roscoepeak 1920
- Ferdinandpeak 1918
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Emilpeak 1917
- Brownpeak 1918
- Olafpeak 1916
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Harmonpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.