girls:
186 births since 1915
#5530 (3rd percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1880
#2521 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1880
#5184 (33rd percentile)
The name Alois is the #5,184 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,697 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 33.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,521 (45.0% percentile) for all time with 2,511 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,530 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1915.
Alois has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls). Birth data for Alois is available in 97 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (97 years for boys and 24 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 Alois has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alois reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 19.8% percentile (ranked #403) with 113 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 116 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alois ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alois reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #599) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alois".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Alois. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 14.3% confident that Alois is pronounced as A-loh-ihz, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-loh-ihs, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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