Alik
Alik was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,213 among boys’ names; 392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alik?
#7,213 among boys’ names, 2025
Alik rose from #12,165 in 2015 to #7,213 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 6.4 per million.
19 babies in 2008, the peak
Alik peaked in 2008, when 19 boys were given it, #4,900 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,213 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,337 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,327 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,922 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,766 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,308 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,665 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,556 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,939 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,056 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #12,165 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,003 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,614 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,315 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,589 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,167 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,242 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,900 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,980 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,308 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,580 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,534 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,275 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,666 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,890 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,446 | 4.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,845 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,453 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,019 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,511 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #6,981 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,729 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,138 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,952 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,421 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,303 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 392 Americans recorded as Alik, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 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 Alik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alik, and how old are they?
An estimated 386 Americans named Alik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 591 people named Alik (60 women and girls, 531 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 340 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 62,261 babies since 1880, Alik is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 295 babies (3.7%), the third most given that year.
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 Alik
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 Alik and names like it
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- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alik alive today were born 1997-2012.
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