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Aleck

Boys' name

To defend + man, through Alexander

Aleck has been given to 1,223 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1917, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Aleck, 2024

1 in 418,000

Aleck over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleck: meaning, origin, and history

To defend + man, through Alexander

Ancient Greek

What Aleck means

Aleck belongs to the name family reached through Aleck → Alexander. Its meaning is “to defend + man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleck is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexander and Alec.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,223 boys were recorded with the name Aleck between 1884 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1917; its best national rank was #758 in 1886.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aleck?

Aleck had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleck sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alecks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleck was born before 1994 — so the typical Aleck is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
752
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2000s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (242).

Is Aleck 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (32)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#758
1886

Spellings of Aleck

Aleck is not the most common spelling — Alex is, with 77.8% against Aleck's 0.33%.

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 Aleck is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleck was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 524,583 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Aleck has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleck around the world

Where Aleck 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 & Wales
    2000–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • France
    1998–2025
    #1,921
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1989–2001
    #581
    in 2001

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.

Aleck by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#758
1886
Peak year
1917
32 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,223
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aleck

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AlejoAlexiAleemAlexeiAleksAlenAlexeyBreckAlephAlekAlessioAlekseyAlexxAlemAlekiAlekseiAlericAlexyAlexaAlekaiAlessoAlexiosAleisterAlexandr

Sibling names for Aleck

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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