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Alek

#2,604 in 2025Boys' name

To defend + man, through Alexander

Alek has been given to 4,649 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #2,604 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 154 recorded.

Babies named Alek, 2025

1 in 66,300

Alek over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alek: meaning, origin, and history

To defend + man, through Alexander

Ancient Greek

What Alek means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Alek 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, 4,563 boys were recorded with the name Alek between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 154 in 1999; its best national rank was #932 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,518 in 2020 to #2,604 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,317 in 2015 to #2,604 in 2025.

In the United States, 86 girls were recorded with the name Alek between 1992 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #11,776 in 1992.

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 Alek?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,604
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alek 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 2025 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alek was born before 2006 — so the typical Alek is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,541
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (1,388).

Is Alek 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
−634
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,086
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,287
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.5%
Peak was 1999 (154)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#932
1994

Spellings of Alek

Alek is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 12.6% against Alek's 0.16%.

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 Alek is used

Across 2016–2025, Alek was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 15,736 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 6,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 11,111
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6New York1 in 33,333
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 50,000

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.

Alek around the world

Where Alek 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
    2000–2024
    #2,444
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #779
    in 2022
  • France
    1995–2025
    #2,066
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alek

People whose public names include Alek, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alek in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alek. Linked forms have their own page here.

OlekAleksis

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alek by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,604
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,086
Best rank ever
#932
1994
Peak year
1999
154 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,563
Count in 2025
50

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,776
1992
Peak year
2007
8 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alek

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

AlenAlexiAlejoMalekAlecAlexeiAleemAlessioAlemAleksAleckAlexeyAlexandreAlephAlexAlexandroAlexisElekAlekseyAlexxAleoAlexavierAlekiAleksei

Names with a curve like Alek

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alek, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DestinMarkelMarkellArmanDezmondGeovanniMiguelangelKyronGersonKeelanJaleelFredy

Sibling names for Alek

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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