Alika — boys' name

What the Data Says About Alika

The Social Security Administration has registered 635 babies named Alika between 1971 and 2023, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alika currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Alika is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 570 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alika performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 155 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Alika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 421 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Alika in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alika 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 635 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.