Alasdair

#3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births

Peak · boys
2015 · 36 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
525
since 1989

Alasdair over time

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Rank among boys' names. Alasdair has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202015peak #3,149, 2015boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#3,84828
2024#3,69330
2023#3,71230
2022#4,70121
2021#3,18037
2020#4,54021
2019#4,95119
2018#4,35423
2017#4,59421
2016#4,47022
2015#3,14936
2014#3,61729
2013#4,62120
2012#5,25617
2011#4,22123
2010#5,74115
2009#5,33417
2008#9,0198
2007#4,80819
2006#7,42710
2005#11,4725
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1999#6,5309
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1996#7,9716
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1989#7,9055
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First appearance
1989

The first year at least five boys were named Alasdair! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1991–1995, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Alasdair
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 155 spots since 2024 (#3,693#3,848)
  • 692 spots since 2020 (#4,540#3,848)
  • 699 spots since 2015 (#3,149#3,848)
Rise & fade · boys
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1989
  • Peaked 2015 at #3,149 (36 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 47,283
  • Highest: 1 in 47,283 boys born in 2021 were named Alasdair (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,149 in 2015, was only 1 in 53,243 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 42.9% of all boys named Alasdair (225) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#7,905 (1989)#7,905
1990s43#5,642 (1997)#7,106
2000s85#4,808 (2007)#7,512
2010s225#3,149 (2015)#4,497
2020s167#3,180 (2021)#3,946

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.

Alasdair in 2015

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#3,149
36 births · 1 in 53,243 boys

Top boys' names in 2015

  1. #1Noah19,680
  2. #2Liam18,410
  3. #3Mason16,675
  4. #4Jacob16,005
  5. #5William15,950
  6. #6Ethan15,103
  7. #7James14,865
  8. #8Alexander14,584
  9. #9Michael14,504
  10. #10Benjamin13,732
  11. #3,149Alasdair36
More about 2015

boys

1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 53,243 of them was named Alasdair, which outranked 77.6% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alasdair
  1. #3,085Zakir37
  2. #3,085Zavien37
  3. #3,085Zaydan37
  4. #3,149Alasdair36
  5. #3,149Abdoulaye36
  6. #3,149Abdulmalik36
  7. #3,149Adhvik36
  8. #3,231Advait35
  9. #3,231Aero35
  10. #3,231Amier35

Tied with 81 names at #3,149; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2014
Risers
  1. 1,348Riaan#2,277#929
  2. 397Huxley#1,355#958
  3. 355Wilder#1,313#958
  4. 284Jaziel#1,218#934
  5. 268Canaan#1,074#806
Fallers
  1. 676Arnav#891#1,567
  2. 262Jayse#906#1,168
  3. 239Neymar#551#790
  4. 228Rylee#877#1,105
  5. 204Johnathon#915#1,119

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2015