girls:
86 births since 1992
#5630 (1st percentile)
boys:
4.4k births since 1916
#1820 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1916
#4064 (47th percentile)
The name Alek is the #4,064 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,519 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 47.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,820 (60.3% percentile) for all time with 4,433 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,630 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1992.
Alek first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1992 for girls). Birth data for Alek is available in 50 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 14 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 Alek has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alek reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 18.5% percentile (ranked #656) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 76 births per million (ranked 18.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alek ranks #814 for boys (10.7% percentile) with 56 births per million, which is 73.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alek reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #984) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alek".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Alec. View all variations of Alec.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Alek", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alec" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alec..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Alek. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Alek is pronounced as A-lehk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEHK, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 L EH0 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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