Meaning not yet researched.
Alakai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,558 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,558 in 2023; #1,808 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alakai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,808 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,558.
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Alakai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,558 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 112 (2023).
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Alakai, making it the 1,808th most common boys’ name of the year, down 235 places from #1,573 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 110 boys named Alakai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,558, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 112. For comparison, it was #5,516 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alakai in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 6 babies. In all, 910 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 549 babies named Alakai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 705 US boys were named Alakai; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,410 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alakai ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #146 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Alika, Aleka and Alekai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alika (1,205), Aleka (220), Alekai (170), Alikai (127), Alakay (102), Alicai (20), Alikah (11), Alyka (6), Alekay (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alakai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 7 | #146 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #846 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,243 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,351 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,633 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 88 | #1,808 |
| 2024 | — | — | 110 | #1,573 |
| 2023 | — | — | 112 | #1,558 |
| 2022 | — | — | 81 | #1,917 |
| 2021 | — | — | 87 | #1,800 |
| 2020 | — | — | 71 | #1,998 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,230 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,303 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #2,954 |
| 2016 | — | — | 20 | #4,783 |
| 2015 | — | — | 16 | #5,516 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,645 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,320 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,492 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #4,985 |
| 2010 | — | — | 26 | #3,896 |
| 2009 | — | — | 26 | #3,924 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,346 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,108 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #5,795 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #7,650 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #6,730 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #10,719 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #10,405 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #7,994 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).