Alek
Alek was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,604 among boys’ names; 4,649 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,540 Americans named Alek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alek mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alek is “a diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, variant of Alec.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alek?
#2,604 among boys’ names, 2025
Alek fell from #1,317 in 2015 to #2,604 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 69.9 to 29.3 per million.
162 babies in 2007, the peak
Alek peaked in 2007, when 162 babies were given it (154 boys, #1,152 among boys’ names). The 50 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,604 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 79 | #1,970 | 45.9 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,669 | 59.6 |
| 2022 | 95 | #1,751 | 54.4 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,646 | 57.7 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,518 | 63.7 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,507 | 63.0 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,539 | 60.6 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,525 | 58.3 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,501 | 59.5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | #1,317 | 69.9 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,363 | 65.1 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,305 | 69.8 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,295 | 70.6 |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,170 | 80.0 |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,278 | 70.9 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,331 | 65.5 |
| 2008 | 137 | #1,271 | 67.2 |
| 2007 | 154 | #1,152 | 74.2 |
| 2006 | 153 | #1,127 | 74.4 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,288 | 59.6 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,151 | 68.5 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,140 | 66.8 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,138 | 64.4 |
| 2001 | 148 | #1,009 | 76.2 |
| 2000 | 154 | #971 | 78.4 |
| 1999 | 154 | #942 | 80.2 |
| 1998 | 133 | #1,014 | 69.6 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,113 | 59.9 |
| 1996 | 135 | #953 | 71.3 |
| 1995 | 131 | #965 | 68.8 |
| 1994 | 138 | #932 | 71.4 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,114 | 51.5 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,258 | 40.1 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,165 | 44.1 |
| 1990 | 62 | #1,415 | 30.2 |
| 1989 | 56 | #1,471 | 28.0 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,812 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,331 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,427 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,942 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,704 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,507 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,487 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,289 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #4,947 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,216 | 7.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,951 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,112 | 3.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,531 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,172 | 5.1 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,546 | 11.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,649 Americans recorded as Alek, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 50 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alek, and how old are they?
4,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,649 Americans ever recorded as Alek. The median Alek alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,344 people named Alek (160 women and girls, 4,184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,053 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alek born?
The states with the most babies named Alek are Texas, California and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,296 | 1.3× |
| California | 5 | #2,486 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | #928 | 1.6× |
Where Alek is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alek is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1916 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alek with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 62,261 babies since 1880, Alek is the second most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 295 babies (17%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alek
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alek and names like it
- Compare Alek and AlecBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlek peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alek since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Alek: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Alek.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alek alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.