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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 191,829 of them was named Alder, which outranked 42.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,943Zoria10
- #9,943Zurii10
- #9,943Zyliah10
- #10,689Alder9
- #10,689Aaisha9
- #10,689Aania9
- #10,689Aashirya9
- #11,615Aadrika8
- #11,615Aaiza8
- #11,615Aaleeyah8
Tied with 925 names at #10,689; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 31,913 of them was named Alder, which outranked 84.1% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,240Viraaj59
- #2,240Yusef59
- #2,240Zakary59
- #2,270Alder58
- #2,270Abubakar58
- #2,270Anish58
- #2,270Aric58
- #2,295Adryan57
- #2,295Charbel57
- #2,295Croix57
Tied with 24 names at #2,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.