Alpha — #15244 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Alpha

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,182 babies named Alpha between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alpha currently holds the #15244 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 198 babies received it in a single year. Alpha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,785 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alpha performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 1,537 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Alpha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 542 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Alpha in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alpha 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 7,182 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.