Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Alter” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alter” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alter” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alter” 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
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1922 12 0.000005242 5 7 -17%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 21 0.000005742 21 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2017 9 0.000002517 9 -100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 -100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 -100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 -100%

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