girls:
6 births since 1976
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1942
#1982 (57th percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1942
#4402 (43rd percentile)
The name Alain is the #4,402 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,904 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 43.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,982 (56.8% percentile) for all time with 3,898 births since 1942. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1976.
Alain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (1942 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Alain is available in 80 out of the 82 years between 1942 and 2023 (80 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alain has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alain reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #639) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 46 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alain ranks #865 for boys (5.1% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 60.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alain reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #759) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alain".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Alain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.7% confident that Alain is pronounced as uh-LAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LAN, at 32.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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