Alek
Alek is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 935th, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 790.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1999154 births
- Best rank
- #935in 1994
- Since 1916
- 4,513people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,513 boys have been named Alek in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 154 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1999, its biggest year
Alek was the 944th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Alek
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kamilpeak 2006
- Demitripeak 2001
- Jakeempeak 2002
- Destinpeak 2001
- Calebpeak 2002
- Zacchaeuspeak 2003
- Jabrielpeak 2009
- Chancepeak 1996
Other spellings in the data
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.