girls:
5 births since 2018
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1924
#3185 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1924
#6281 (19th percentile)
The name Alister is the #6,281 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,464 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 18.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,185 (30.5% percentile) for all time with 1,459 births since 1924. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2018.
Alister first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for boys and 2018 for girls). Birth data for Alister is available in 40 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (40 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 Alister has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alister reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 14.6% percentile (ranked #789) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 75 births per million (ranked 14.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2001, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Alister ranks #817 for boys (10.3% percentile) with 54 births per million, which is 72.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alister reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #961) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alister".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alister. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.2% confident that Alister is pronounced as A-lih-ster, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LIH-ster, at 15.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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