Alika
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to boys 52.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 635since 1971
Alika over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | — | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alika! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Alika
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1980 at #2,729 (17 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 30 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 90,368 boys born in 2016 were named Alika (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 285,096 boys born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,729 in 1980, was only 1 in 104,938 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.4% of all boys named Alika (155) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2019, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 78 | #2,897 (1979) | #3,327 |
| 1980s | 134 | #2,729 (1980) | #3,434 |
| 1990s | 155 | #3,325 (1991) | #4,077 |
| 2000s | 125 | #4,573 (2000) | #6,125 |
| 2010s | 110 | #4,624 (2016) | #7,710 |
| 2020s | 33 | #7,034 (2020) | #8,961 |
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.
Alika in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 238,294 of them was named Alika, which outranked 33.4% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,409Yuka8
- #7,409Zanetta8
- #7,409Zonia8
- #8,128Alika7
- #8,128Aarika7
- #8,128Abbigale7
- #8,128Abbye7
- #9,110Aaisha6
- #9,110Abbra6
- #9,110Abel6
Tied with 981 names at #8,128; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 111,949 of them was named Alika, which outranked 61.9% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,680Umar17
- #2,680Wilburn17
- #2,680Yehoshua17
- #2,779Alika16
- #2,779Aarron16
- #2,779Alfonza16
- #2,779Alva16
- #2,898Acie15
- #2,898Adil15
- #2,898Alejandra15
Tied with 118 names at #2,779; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.