Alim
#3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 840since 1970
Alim over time
Rank among boys' names. Alim has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,949 | 27 |
| 2024 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #3,883 | 28 |
| 2022 | #4,442 | 23 |
| 2021 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #3,347 | 34 |
| 2018 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #4,099 | 24 |
| 2009 | #4,748 | 20 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #3,406 | 20 |
| 1995 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,215 | 9 |
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| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
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| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alim! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alim is popular in 1996
No state had 5 or more boys named Alim in 1996, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alim
- 904 spots since 2024 (#3,045 → #3,949)
- 531 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #3,949)
- 596 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #3,949)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1975 at #2,902 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,072 boys born in 2024 were named Alim (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,902 in 1975, was only 1 in 120,104 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.9% of all boys named Alim (243) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 59 | #2,902 (1975) | #4,144 |
| 1980s | 58 | #4,215 (1984) | #5,308 |
| 1990s | 122 | #3,406 (1996) | #5,073 |
| 2000s | 183 | #3,921 (2008) | #4,680 |
| 2010s | 243 | #3,106 (2018) | #4,279 |
| 2020s | 175 | #3,045 (2024) | #3,809 |
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.
Alim in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 94,715 of them was named Alim, which outranked 67.7% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,293Yasir21
- #3,293Yoni21
- #3,293Zakari21
- #3,406Alim20
- #3,406Anastasios20
- #3,406Arick20
- #3,406Asael20
- #3,549Akhil19
- #3,549Alphonzo19
- #3,549Amber19
Tied with 142 names at #3,406; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.