Alcuin
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alcuin has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1924, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Alcuin, 1938
1 in 277,000
Alcuin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alcuin?
Alcuin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1938
- 1 in 277,000
- 8 of 2,212,569 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 139,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1938
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alcuin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 191,706 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alcuin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alcuins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alcuin was born before 1930 — so the typical Alcuin is around 95 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 58.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Alcuin 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 1924 (8)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.3% average annual change
Spellings of Alcuin
Alcuin is not the most common spelling — Alvin is, with 93.8% against Alcuin's 0.03%.
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 Alcuin is used
Across 1910–2025, Alcuin was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 118,569 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 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. Alcuin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Alcuin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alcuin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alcuin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.