Alika
Alika was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,205 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Alika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,880, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1998, the peak
Alika peaked in 1998, when 35 babies were given it (21 boys, #3,489 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,399 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,542 | 6 | #10,880 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,086 | 7 | #9,871 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,494 | 9 | #8,196 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,569 | 11 | #7,049 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,523 | 12 | #6,792 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,848 | 8 | #8,849 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,544 | 14 | #6,066 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,010 | 21 | #4,629 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,022 | 13 | #6,334 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,659 | 10 | #7,571 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,635 | 8 | #8,821 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,471 | 11 | #7,071 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,214 | 5 | #12,357 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,605 | 8 | #8,832 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,817 | 13 | #6,441 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,545 | 10 | #7,709 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,560 | 17 | #5,212 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,863 | 13 | #6,103 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,153 | 11 | #6,648 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,781 | 12 | #6,142 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,802 | 10 | #6,730 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,455 | 11 | #6,094 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,742 | 12 | #5,672 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,592 | 16 | #4,575 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,839 | 12 | #5,323 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,728 | 21 | #3,489 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,759 | 16 | #4,060 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,840 | 13 | #4,611 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,553 | 17 | #3,693 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,681 | 15 | #4,095 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,738 | 17 | #3,656 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,362 | 14 | #4,111 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,214 | 18 | #3,324 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,014 | 12 | #4,406 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,698 | 10 | #4,813 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,705 | 13 | #3,706 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,000 | 13 | #3,524 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,574 | 14 | #3,270 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,681 | 11 | #3,804 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,740 | 11 | #3,706 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,040 | 15 | #2,916 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,247 | 14 | #3,111 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,148 | 16 | #2,779 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,921 | 17 | #2,731 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,323 | 15 | #2,900 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 11 | #3,402 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 14 | #2,911 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 12 | #3,096 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,101 | 10 | #3,432 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,698 | 7 | #4,198 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,448 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,797 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,373 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Alika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,205 Americans recorded as Alika, 47% are girls and 53% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alika, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,205 Americans ever recorded as Alika. The median Alika alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,042 people named Alika (483 women and girls, 559 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 338 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 447 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 256 |
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 Alika born?
The states with the most babies named Alika are Hawaii, California and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 421 | not ranked | 84.3× |
| California | 20 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Alika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alika is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1971 it was given 84.3 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 Alika 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,616 babies since 1880, Alika is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 none of their 133 babies recorded by SSA was a Alika (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Alika
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Corinthian | 1,009 | |
| Britton | 8,293 | |
| Bradlee | 3,870 | |
| Tai | 4,937 |
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 Alika and names like it
- Compare Alika and AlakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlika peaked in 1998.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alika since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Alika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.