Alo — #8171 US boys' name
84 babies named Alo in U.S. Social Security records since 2013, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 43% of names given to boys today.
67% of everyone ever named Alo was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Alo in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alo
The Social Security Administration has registered 84 babies named Alo between 2013 and 2024, spanning 12 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alo currently holds the #8171 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Alo is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2022.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alo performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 56 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Alo shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Alo in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alo 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 84 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.
Alo at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Alo popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2013
- Peak year (2022)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 12 years of records
Currently ranks #8171 among boys.
84 total births across 12 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 15 births in a single year.
Alo popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 2022 (Alo as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Alo accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Alo by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 56 births that decade — 67% of Alo's all-time total
Alo decade highlights
- Peak decade 56 births
- Runner-up 28 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Alo's strongest decade
56 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 67% of all-time use.
Alo by state
Where Alo concentrates geographically — total births since 2013
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 6.0% |
5 of 84 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 6.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.0% 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, 2013–2024 (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.