Alabama
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alabama has been given to 306 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Alabama, 2023
1 in 368,000
Alabama over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Alabama?
Alabama had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 178,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,294 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alabama sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alabama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alabamas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alabama was born before 2010 — so the typical Alabama is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 306
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (138).
Is Alabama rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2007 (27)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.4% average annual change
Where Alabama is used
Across 1910–2025, Alabama was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 667,199 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alabama has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Alabama around the world
Where Alabama ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2025#5,927in 2025
- France1997–2017#6,988in 2017
- Canada2012–2012#3,249in 2012
- South Australia2004–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Alabama by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alabama
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alabama
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.