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How popular is “Alek” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alek” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alek” 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 “Alek” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alek” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alek” 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
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 22 0.000006185 22 -100%
1987 24 0.000006656 24 -100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 -100%
1989 56 0.000014566 56 -100%
1990 62 0.000015686 62 -100%
1991 89 0.000022848 89 -100%
1992 86 0.000022388 6 80 -86%
1993 101 0.000026788 101 -100%
1994 143 0.000038465 5 138 -93%
1995 131 0.000035771 131 -100%
1996 135 0.000037015 135 -100%
1997 113 0.000031166 113 -100%
1998 139 0.00003779 6 133 -91%
1999 154 0.000041691 154 -100%
2000 154 0.000040742 154 -100%
2001 148 0.000039536 148 -100%
2002 130 0.000034775 5 125 -92%
2003 132 0.000034716 132 -100%
2004 136 0.000035593 136 -100%
2005 119 0.000030951 119 -100%
2006 160 0.000040443 7 153 -91%
2007 162 0.000040523 8 154 -90%
2008 143 0.000036381 6 137 -92%
2009 137 0.000035862 7 130 -90%
2010 136 0.000036799 136 -100%
2011 157 0.000042922 5 152 -94%
2012 134 0.000036638 134 -100%
2013 138 0.000037853 6 132 -91%
2014 132 0.000035614 7 125 -89%
2015 134 0.000036207 134 -100%
2016 113 0.000030801 113 -100%
2017 114 0.000031877 6 108 -89%
2018 110 0.000031286 110 -100%
2019 120 0.000034573 7 113 -88%
2020 110 0.000032928 110 -100%
2021 101 0.000029812 101 -100%
2022 100 0.000029558 5 95 -90%
2023 102 0.000030805 102 -100%
2024 79 0.000023734 79 -100%

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