Alder
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #1,401 for boys in 2025, 130 births
Given to boys 95.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 130 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,363since 1915
Alder over time
Rank among boys' names. Alder has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #10,107 | 9 | #1,401 | 130 |
| 2024 | — | #1,423 | 129 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,465 | 123 |
| 2022 | — | #1,447 | 125 | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,529 | 115 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,743 | 88 |
| 2019 | — | #1,698 | 93 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,029 | 71 | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,936 | 75 |
| 2015 | — | #3,149 | 36 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,661 | 45 | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | — | #3,231 | 34 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,659 | 20 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,487 | 16 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,375 | 22 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
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| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alder! It came in at #3,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Alder
- 22 spots since 2024 (#1,423 → #1,401)
- 342 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #1,401)
- 1,748 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #1,401)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2025 at #1,401 (130 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,139 boys born in 2025 were named Alder (0.01%)
- 52.1% of all boys named Alder (710) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #3,391 (1919) | #3,392 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 11 | #6,426 (1988) | #6,475 |
| 1990s | 12 | #7,560 (1998) | #8,288 |
| 2000s | 132 | #4,375 (2007) | #6,388 |
| 2010s | 485 | #1,698 (2019) | #2,928 |
| 2020s | 710 | #1,401 (2025) | #1,501 |
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.
Alder in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 90,162 of them was named Alder, which outranked 69.5% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,278Zebediah23
- #4,278Ziaire23
- #4,278Zian23
- #4,429Alder22
- #4,429Adison22
- #4,429Adit22
- #4,429Aidden22
- #4,582Akshar21
- #4,582Aleem21
- #4,582Aleks21
Tied with 152 names at #4,429; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.