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Aleks

#8,273 in 2025Boys' name

To ward off, defend + man, through Alex

Aleks has been given to 474 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #8,273 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Aleks, 2025

1 in 368,000

Aleks over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleks: meaning, origin, and history

To ward off, defend + man, through Alex

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Aleks means

Aleks belongs to the name family reached through Aleks → Alex → Alexander. Its meaning is “to ward off, defend + man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleks is used in Albanian, Estonian, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aleksander, Alex, Aleksandra and Alexander.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Aleks is pronounced /ˈalː.ɛks/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 474 boys were recorded with the name Aleks between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,127 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,046 in 2020 to #8,273 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,180 in 2015 to #8,273 in 2025.

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 Aleks?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,273
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleks 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleks. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alekss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleks was born before 2010 — so the typical Aleks is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
474
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (200).

Is Aleks 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
+60
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,227
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,093
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 2010 (36)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,127
2010

Spellings of Aleks

Aleks is not the most common spelling — Alex is, with 63.7% against Aleks's 0.11%.

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 Aleks is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleks was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 622,708 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 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. Aleks has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleks around the world

Where Aleks 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
    2004–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2018
    #416
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2007–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    2002–2025
    #2,350
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Aleks by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,273
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,227
Best rank ever
#3,127
2010
Peak year
2010
36 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
474
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Aleks

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

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Sibling names for Aleks

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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