Alasdair

Where Alasdair comes from

The dictionaries list Alasdair as a given name — a male given name from Scottish Gaelic — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Scottish Gaelic
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1989
    First appearance
    #7,905 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2015
    Peak, #3,149
    36 babies named Alasdair — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.