Meaning not yet researched.
Alias: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,572 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Alias in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,572 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Alias: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,572 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 108 (2025).
In 2025, 108 US boys were named Alias, making it the 1,572nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 319 places from #1,891 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 84 boys named Alias in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,572, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #3,690 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alias in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 7 babies. In all, 1,201 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 493 babies named Alias.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 678 US boys were named Alias; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,816 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alias ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #783 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alize (5,684 babies since 1880), Alise (3,613 babies since 1880), Alois (2,711 babies since 1880) and Alease (1,838 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aliyas, Ahlias and Aelius 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: Aliyas (157), Ahlias (120), Aelius (28), Aliyus (24), Aalias (11).
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 Alias 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 7 | #783 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,194 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,245 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,288 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,297 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,356 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,773 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 108 | #1,572 |
| 2024 | — | — | 84 | #1,891 |
| 2023 | — | — | 91 | #1,774 |
| 2022 | — | — | 78 | #1,965 |
| 2021 | — | — | 72 | #2,040 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,266 |
| 2019 | — | — | 70 | #2,062 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,748 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,841 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,685 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,690 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,695 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,470 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,531 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,363 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,103 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,284 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,399 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,244 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #4,869 |
| 2005 | — | — | 28 | #3,452 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,133 |
| 2003 | — | — | 21 | #3,980 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,555 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,847 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,424 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,768 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,206 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,741 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,544 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,134 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #7,803 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,245 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,456 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,768 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,205 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,243 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,768 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,375 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,116 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,458 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #3,973 |
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).