Alastair

#2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births

Peak · boys
2025 · 67 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,364
since 1922

Alastair over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alastair has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201972boysat peak
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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
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,14567
2024#2,37059
2023#2,31560
2022#2,64850
2021#2,27761
2020#2,98039
2019#2,22862
2018#2,67446
2017#2,18661
2016#2,51850
2015#2,60047
2014#3,09036
2013#3,66128
2012#3,00238
2011#3,79227
2010#3,99425
2009#3,33233
2008#3,10337
2007#3,59129
2006#3,02436
2005#3,81524
2004#4,60218
2003#5,55813
2002#5,39513
2001#5,14214
2000#5,29713
1999#4,53715
1998#5,84010
1997#3,87717
1996#3,83017
1995#3,69317
1994#5,10911
1993#3,81916
1992#2,99922
1991#4,00514
1990#4,16713
1989#3,20518
1988#2,76520
1987#2,72519
1986#2,29024
1985#3,21614
1984#3,45912
1983#5,4846
1982#3,96610
1981#3,03014
1980#4,4958
1979#5,3556
1978#5,0596
1977#4,1648
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1974#4,6346
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1972#3,6228
1971#4,9075
1970#3,2829
1969#4,4045
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1929#3,2477
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First appearance
1922

The first year at least five boys were named Alastair! It came in at #4,307, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1922–1928, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Alastair
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 225 spots since 2024 (#2,370#2,145)
  • 835 spots since 2020 (#2,980#2,145)
  • 455 spots since 2015 (#2,600#2,145)
Rise & fade · boys
103 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1922
  • Peaked 2025 at #2,145 (67 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 25,494
  • Highest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 were named Alastair (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 30.8% of all boys named Alastair (420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s17#3,247 (1929)#3,917
1930s0
1940s6#3,316 (1948)#3,316
1950s0
1960s10#4,033 (1962)#4,219
1970s48#3,282 (1970)#4,432
1980s145#2,290 (1986)#3,464
1990s152#2,999 (1992)#4,188
2000s230#3,024 (2006)#4,286
2010s420#2,186 (2017)#2,975
2020s336#2,145 (2025)#2,456

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.

Alastair in 1972

boys
#3,622
8 births · 1 in 202,701 boys

Top boys' names in 1972

  1. #1Michael71,393
  2. #2Christopher52,172
  3. #3James47,063
  4. #4David46,322
  5. #5John43,158
  6. #6Robert43,013
  7. #7Jason37,423
  8. #8Brian36,306
  9. #9William30,510
  10. #10Matthew22,928
  11. #3,622Alastair8
More about 1972

boys

1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 202,701 of them was named Alastair, which outranked 37.0% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alastair
  1. #3,344Yakov9
  2. #3,344Yero9
  3. #3,344Zakary9
  4. #3,622Alastair8
  5. #3,622Afshin8
  6. #3,622Aj8
  7. #3,622Akbar8
  8. #3,963Abayomi7
  9. #3,963Abdon7
  10. #3,963Adolf7

Tied with 340 names at #3,622; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1971
Risers
  1. 2,755Demond#3,146#391
  2. 1,286Cade#2,279#993
  3. 905Vidal#1,526#621
  4. 855Damond#1,784#929
  5. 849Kareem#1,254#405
Fallers
  1. 413Rich#914#1,327
  2. 401Monroe#947#1,348
  3. 317Laura#990#1,307
  4. 309Von#976#1,285
  5. 309Westley#998#1,307

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

See the top 100 for 1972