Meaning not yet researched.
Alistair: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 265 in 2025. Its best rank was #885 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #885 in 2016; #897 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alistair in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#897 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #885.
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Alistair: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 265 boys in 2025. Peak: #885 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 265 (2025).
In 2025, 265 US boys were named Alistair, making it the 897th most common boys’ name of the year, up 12 places from #909 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 257 boys named Alistair in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #885, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 265, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,023 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alistair in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 7 babies. In all, 4,088 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,722 babies named Alistair.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,399 US boys were named Alistair; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 265. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,446 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alistair ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #537 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880), Alejandro (147,470 babies since 1880), Alexandre (5,389 babies since 1880) and Lisandro (2,416 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alasdair, Alistar and Allistair 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: Alasdair (525), Alistar (178), Allistair (90), Alastar (36), Alistaire (16), Allistar (5), Alistor (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 Alistair 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 10 | #537 | — |
| Missouri | 10 | #559 | #734 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #623 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #699 | #703 |
| Utah | 5 | #706 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #708 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #712 | #603 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #721 | — |
| California | 32 | #787 | #934 |
| Georgia | 10 | #854 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #856 | #838 |
| Florida | 16 | #889 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #916 | #933 |
| Arizona | 5 | #929 | #885 |
| Texas | 26 | #938 | #972 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #941 | #763 |
| New York | 13 | #952 | #951 |
| Indiana | 5 | #952 | #791 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,003 | #1,082 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,004 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,290 | #1,077 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 265 | #897 |
| 2024 | — | — | 257 | #909 |
| 2023 | — | — | 250 | #921 |
| 2022 | — | — | 248 | #929 |
| 2021 | — | — | 255 | #902 |
| 2020 | — | — | 226 | #961 |
| 2019 | — | — | 221 | #968 |
| 2018 | — | — | 205 | #1,009 |
| 2017 | — | — | 225 | #929 |
| 2016 | — | — | 247 | #885 |
| 2015 | — | — | 198 | #1,023 |
| 2014 | — | — | 179 | #1,080 |
| 2013 | — | — | 132 | #1,306 |
| 2012 | — | — | 126 | #1,346 |
| 2011 | — | — | 108 | #1,495 |
| 2010 | — | — | 81 | #1,807 |
| 2009 | — | — | 90 | #1,718 |
| 2008 | — | — | 68 | #2,040 |
| 2007 | — | — | 71 | #1,974 |
| 2006 | — | — | 53 | #2,349 |
| 2005 | — | — | 42 | #2,615 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,161 |
| 2003 | — | — | 23 | #3,735 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,355 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,848 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,425 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,797 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,852 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #4,971 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,109 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,434 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,852 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,247 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,581 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #2,992 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,005 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,452 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,917 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,246 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,443 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,219 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,110 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,514 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,646 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,223 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,544 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,077 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,078 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,913 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,729 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,435 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,126 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,454 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #2,993 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,820 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,743 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,424 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,608 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,224 |
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).