Alain
Last seen for girls in 1976 at #8,156 · #2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,980since 1942
Alain over time
Rank among boys' names. Alain has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,833 | 44 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,216 | 37 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,575 | 51 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,675 | 49 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,695 | 47 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,617 | 48 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,626 | 49 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,230 | 61 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,365 | 55 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,300 | 57 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,461 | 51 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,903 | 74 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,104 | 64 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,105 | 63 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,354 | 54 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,287 | 57 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,186 | 61 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,034 | 68 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,856 | 73 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,801 | 72 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,989 | 60 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,561 | 81 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,817 | 63 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,710 | 67 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,924 | 54 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,720 | 60 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,719 | 59 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,535 | 67 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,586 | 62 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,430 | 69 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,734 | 51 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,261 | 81 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,340 | 71 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,254 | 79 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,259 | 77 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,197 | 80 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,023 | 92 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,004 | 89 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,041 | 80 | |
| 1985 | — | #998 | 83 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,033 | 74 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,059 | 70 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,096 | 69 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,341 | 49 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,598 | 36 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,410 | 43 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,312 | 47 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #1,019 | 66 |
| 1975 | — | #1,191 | 50 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,244 | 45 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,329 | 39 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,285 | 42 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,214 | 46 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,260 | 43 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,221 | 42 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,087 | 46 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,345 | 32 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,360 | 32 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,114 | 47 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,279 | 37 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,311 | 35 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,686 | 23 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,486 | 29 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,588 | 25 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,724 | 21 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,673 | 23 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,608 | 24 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,044 | 15 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,630 | 22 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,135 | 13 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,701 | 19 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,337 | 11 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,218 | 12 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alain! It came in at #3,560, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1945, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Alain
- 383 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #2,833)
- 216 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,833)
- 533 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #2,833)
- Biggest jump: 35 spots in 1985 (#1,033 → #998)
- Biggest drop: 43 spots in 1986 (#998 → #1,041)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1985 at #998 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 39 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1985
- Highest: 1 in 20,807 boys born in 1988 were named Alain (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #998 in 1985, was only 1 in 22,268 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.5% of all boys named Alain (738) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 53 | #2,218 (1948) | #2,748 |
| 1950s | 183 | #1,588 (1959) | #1,952 |
| 1960s | 358 | #1,087 (1967) | #1,317 |
| 1970s | 457 | #1,019 (1976) | #1,286 |
| 1980s | 738 | #998 (1985) | #1,106 |
| 1990s | 676 | #1,254 (1991) | #1,484 |
| 2000s | 656 | #1,561 (2003) | #1,917 |
| 2010s | 583 | #1,903 (2013) | #2,279 |
| 2020s | 276 | #2,575 (2023) | #2,769 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alain in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 244,183 of them was named Alain, which outranked 25.3% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 23,773 of them was named Alain, which outranked 84.3% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,010Lanny67
- #1,010Lon67
- #1,010Raheem67
- #1,019Alain66
- #1,019Andra66
- #1,019Chandler66
- #1,019Isaias66
- #1,030Antwain65
- #1,030Derrell65
- #1,030Emiliano65
Tied with 10 names at #1,019; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.