Alga
Last seen for girls in 1955 at #5,828 · Last seen for boys in 1930 at #4,001
Given to girls 96.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1888 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 132since 1888
Alga over time
Rank among girls' names. Alga 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.
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | #4,001 | 5 |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,011 | 7 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,666 | 8 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,031 | 9 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,526 | 11 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
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| 1903 | #1,318 | 8 | — | |
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| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alga! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1902, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alga
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1955
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1888 at #1,276 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,746 girls born in 1903 were named Alga (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 391,055 girls born in 1955 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,276 in 1888, was only 1 in 35,724 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.4% of all girls named Alga (52) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1880s | 5 | #1,276 (1888) | #1,276 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 8 | #1,318 (1903) | #1,318 |
| 1910s | 51 | #2,526 (1915) | #3,194 |
| 1920s | 52 | #3,340 (1920) | #4,215 |
| 1930s | 11 | #4,047 (1930) | #4,189 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,828 (1955) | #5,828 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alga in 1903
Top girls' names in 1903
More about 1903
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261,970 girls got a published name in 1903; 1 in 32,746 of them was named Alga, which outranked 36.7% of the 2,083 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).