Meaning not yet researched.
Alek: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #935 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #935 in 1994; #2,604 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alek in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,604 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #935.
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Alek: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #935 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 154 (2007).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Alek, making it the 2,604th most common boys’ name of the year, down 634 places from #1,970 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 79 boys named Alek in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #935, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 154, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,317 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alek in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 10 babies. In all, 4,649 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,421 babies named Alek.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 981 US boys were named Alek; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 113. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alek ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #928 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aleksander (4,166 babies since 1880) and Alec (55,489 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Olek and Aalok are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Olek (24), Aalok (15).
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 Alek in the open dataset we use.
Alek is listed as a nickname for Aleksandr.
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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #928 | #670 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,296 | #902 |
| California | 5 | #2,486 | #912 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 50 | #2,604 |
| 2024 | — | — | 79 | #1,970 |
| 2023 | — | — | 102 | #1,669 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,420 | 95 | #1,751 |
| 2021 | — | — | 101 | #1,646 |
| 2020 | — | — | 110 | #1,518 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,516 | 113 | #1,507 |
| 2018 | — | — | 110 | #1,539 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,233 | 108 | #1,525 |
| 2016 | — | — | 113 | #1,501 |
| 2015 | — | — | 134 | #1,317 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,148 | 125 | #1,363 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,675 | 132 | #1,305 |
| 2012 | — | — | 134 | #1,295 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,889 | 152 | #1,170 |
| 2010 | — | — | 136 | #1,278 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,782 | 130 | #1,331 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,480 | 137 | #1,271 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,721 | 154 | #1,152 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,662 | 153 | #1,127 |
| 2005 | — | — | 119 | #1,289 |
| 2004 | — | — | 136 | #1,152 |
| 2003 | — | — | 132 | #1,141 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,541 | 125 | #1,139 |
| 2001 | — | — | 148 | #1,010 |
| 2000 | — | — | 154 | #973 |
| 1999 | — | — | 154 | #944 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,493 | 133 | #1,017 |
| 1997 | — | — | 113 | #1,116 |
| 1996 | — | — | 135 | #955 |
| 1995 | — | — | 131 | #968 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,490 | 138 | #935 |
| 1993 | — | — | 101 | #1,118 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,783 | 80 | #1,262 |
| 1991 | — | — | 89 | #1,171 |
| 1990 | — | — | 62 | #1,420 |
| 1989 | — | — | 56 | #1,476 |
| 1988 | — | — | 37 | #1,817 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,335 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,429 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,945 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,707 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,509 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,488 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,291 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #4,949 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,217 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #3,953 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,114 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,532 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,173 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,547 |
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).