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How popular is “Alec” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alec” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alec” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alec” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alec” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alec” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alec” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alec” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 11 0.000054595 11 -100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 -100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 12 0.000033568 12 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 15 0.000033314 15 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 9 0.000023272 9 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1904 14 0.000034698 14 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 -100%
1908 10 0.000020465 10 -100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 -100%
1910 18 0.000030472 18 -100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 -100%
1912 21 0.000021254 21 -100%
1913 37 0.000032539 37 -100%
1914 47 0.000033184 47 -100%
1915 57 0.000031106 57 -100%
1916 36 0.00001861 36 -100%
1917 69 0.000034384 69 -100%
1918 59 0.000027175 59 -100%
1919 60 0.000028433 60 -100%
1920 67 0.000029611 67 -100%
1921 69 0.000029557 69 -100%
1922 60 0.000026211 60 -100%
1923 56 0.000024322 56 -100%
1924 50 0.000020994 50 -100%
1925 53 0.000022715 53 -100%
1926 43 0.000018729 43 -100%
1927 54 0.000023282 54 -100%
1928 35 0.00001548 35 -100%
1929 26 0.00001186 26 -100%
1930 37 0.000016642 37 -100%
1931 21 0.000009979 21 -100%
1932 33 0.00001563 33 -100%
1933 32 0.000016004 32 -100%
1934 32 0.000015408 32 -100%
1935 23 0.000011005 23 -100%
1936 28 0.000013477 28 -100%
1937 38 0.000017835 38 -100%
1938 25 0.000011299 25 -100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 -100%
1940 32 0.000013897 32 -100%
1941 36 0.000014776 36 -100%
1942 39 0.000014276 39 -100%
1943 34 0.000012046 34 -100%
1944 34 0.000012639 34 -100%
1945 36 0.00001357 36 -100%
1946 53 0.000016587 53 -100%
1947 70 0.000019432 70 -100%
1948 56 0.00001622 56 -100%
1949 53 0.000015209 53 -100%
1950 50 0.000014272 50 -100%
1951 55 0.00001493 55 -100%
1952 70 0.000018431 70 -100%
1953 51 0.000013234 51 -100%
1954 42 0.000010551 42 -100%
1955 54 0.000013449 54 -100%
1956 75 0.00001819 75 -100%
1957 76 0.000018086 76 -100%
1958 82 0.000019836 82 -100%
1959 98 0.000023569 98 -100%
1960 100 0.000024074 100 -100%
1961 91 0.000021968 91 -100%
1962 75 0.000018586 75 -100%
1963 76 0.000019201 76 -100%
1964 114 0.000029324 114 -100%
1965 116 0.000031996 116 -100%
1966 117 0.000033663 117 -100%
1967 93 0.000027394 93 -100%
1968 98 0.000029008 98 -100%
1969 94 0.000027048 94 -100%
1970 105 0.000029114 105 -100%
1971 105 0.000030591 105 -100%
1972 88 0.000027999 88 -100%
1973 85 0.000028175 85 -100%
1974 60 0.000019737 60 -100%
1975 80 0.000026495 80 -100%
1976 97 0.000031968 97 -100%
1977 94 0.000029592 94 -100%
1978 97 0.000030562 97 -100%
1979 91 0.000027352 91 -100%
1980 125 0.00003629 125 -100%
1981 132 0.000038157 132 -100%
1982 147 0.000041905 147 -100%
1983 203 0.000058614 203 -100%
1984 258 0.000073952 6 252 -95%
1985 297 0.000083214 7 290 -95%
1986 383 0.000107673 6 377 -97%
1987 453 0.000125637 7 446 -97%
1988 444 0.000120161 18 426 -92%
1989 617 0.000160491 14 603 -95%
1990 994 0.000251488 16 978 -97%
1991 1559 0.00040023 20 1539 -97%
1992 1881 0.000489681 15 1866 -98%
1993 2115 0.000560966 25 2090 -98%
1994 3349 0.000900837 27 3322 -98%
1995 3457 0.00094398 37 3420 -98%
1996 3332 0.000913579 24 3308 -99%
1997 3151 0.000869062 14 3137 -99%
1998 3379 0.000918654 23 3356 -99%
1999 2905 0.000786439 13 2892 -99%
2000 2488 0.000658218 9 2479 -99%
2001 2166 0.00057862 11 2155 -99%
2002 1755 0.000469466 6 1749 -99%
2003 1536 0.000403964 10 1526 -99%
2004 1338 0.000350177 5 1333 -99%
2005 1134 0.00029494 7 1127 -99%
2006 982 0.000248219 982 -100%
2007 872 0.000218126 872 -100%
2008 780 0.00019844 6 774 -98%
2009 730 0.000191091 730 -100%
2010 674 0.000182372 5 669 -99%
2011 659 0.000180163 659 -100%
2012 606 0.000165693 606 -100%
2013 626 0.000171711 626 -100%
2014 624 0.000168359 624 -100%
2015 665 0.000179685 665 -100%
2016 622 0.000169542 6 616 -98%
2017 575 0.000160785 575 -100%
2018 520 0.0001479 520 -100%
2019 518 0.000149239 518 -100%
2020 470 0.000140694 470 -100%
2021 390 0.000115114 390 -100%
2022 346 0.000102272 346 -100%
2023 289 0.00008728 289 -100%
2024 273 0.000082019 273 -100%

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