Alakai
#1,808 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alakai has been given to 910 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,808 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 112 recorded.
Babies named Alakai, 2025
1 in 37,700
Alakai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alakai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 37,700
- 88 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 19,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,808
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 26,114 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alakai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alakai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alakais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alakai was born before 2021 — so the typical Alakai is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 60.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 910
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 60.3% of all recorded uses (549).
Is Alakai 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
- −235
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +190
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,704
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.50×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 78.6%
- Peak was 2023 (112)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.4% average annual change
Spellings of Alakai
Alakai is not the most common spelling — Malakai is, with 35.8% against Alakai's 1.8%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Alakai is used
Across 2016–2025, Alakai was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 546 boys, against 1 in 23,904 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 546
- 2Washington1 in 14,286
- 3California1 in 20,000
- 4Texas1 in 25,000
- 5Florida1 in 33,333
- 6Arizona1 in 50,000
- 7Indiana1 in 50,000
- 8Georgia1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Alakai around the world
Where Alakai 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 & Wales2021–2025#4,275in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Alakai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alakai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alakai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.