boys:
520 births since 1954
#4066 (11th percentile)
overall:
520 births since 1954
#7219 (7th percentile)
The name Alcides is the #7,219 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 520 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 6.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,066 (11.3% percentile) for all time with 520 births since 1954.
Alcides first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (first recorded for boys in 1954). Birth data for Alcides is available in 61 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Alcides reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #714) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alcides ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 57.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alcides".
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Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Alcides. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.2% confident that Alcides is pronounced as ahl-SAIDZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AL-saidz, at 12.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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