girls:
22 births since 1997
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1894
#2512 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1894
#5290 (32nd percentile)
The name Alston is the #5,290 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,554 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 31.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,512 (45.2% percentile) for all time with 2,532 births since 1894. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1997.
Alston first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Alston is available in 110 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (110 years for boys and 4 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 Alston has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alston reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #849) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 56 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alston ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 19.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alston reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alston".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alston. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.7% confident that Alston is pronounced as AWL-stuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-stuhn, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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