Alejo — #7761 US boys' name
882 babies named Alejo in U.S. Social Security records since 1909, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 46% of names given to boys today.
14% of everyone ever named Alejo was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Alejo in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alejo
The Social Security Administration has registered 882 babies named Alejo between 1909 and 2024, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alejo currently holds the #7761 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alejo performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Alejo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 114 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Alejo in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alejo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 882 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Alejo at a glance
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Current rank
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Alejo popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1909
- Peak year (1996)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 116 years of records
Currently ranks #7761 among boys.
882 total births across 116 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 17 births in a single year.
Alejo by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 125 births that decade — 14% of Alejo's all-time total
Alejo decade highlights
- Peak decade 125 births
- Runner-up 110 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Alejo's strongest decade
125 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 14% of all-time use.
Alejo by state
Where Alejo concentrates geographically — total births since 1909
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 114 | 12.9% |
| #2 | California | | 90 | 10.2% |
114 of 882 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 12.9% of nationwide
- California 10.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 12.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1909–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.