Algerd

Boys' name

Holy temple + protector

Algerd has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1918, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Algerd, 1925

1 in 467,000

Algerd over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Algerd: meaning, origin, and history

Holy temple + protector

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Algerd means

Algerd means “holy temple + protector”, associated with 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 and 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃.

Origin, language, and formation

Algerd is used in German.

Algerd comes through Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃, Old High German alah and Proto-Germanic *alhs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Algimund.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Algerd between 1916 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1918; its best national rank was #2,885 in 1918.

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.

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How common is Algerd?

Algerd had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925: 1 in 467,000; 5 of 2,333,232 births
Among boys only: 1 in 223,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1925: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 323,456 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Algerd 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 1925 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 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Algerd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Algerds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Algerd was born before 1918 — so the typical Algerd is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Algerd 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: —; 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 1918 (9)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #2,885; 1918

Spellings of Algerd

Algerd is not the most common spelling — Albert is, with 98.3% against Algerd's <0.01%.

Albert98.3%491,861
Alford0.96%4,790
Alder0.27%1,363
Alferd0.19%957
Alger0.17%832
Almer0.11%559
Algerd<0.01%20

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 Algerd is used

Across 1910–2025, Algerd was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,834,433 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Pennsylvania1 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. Algerd has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Algerd 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: #2,885; 1918
Peak year: 1918; 9 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1925
All-time count: 20
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Algerd

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

Algert Algene Algird Algin Sheperd Algirdas Algot Algia Algenis Millerd Algy Algis Alga Gerd Manferd Maynerd Milferd Alger Richerd Winferd Algie Alferd Wilferd Bernerd

Sibling names for Algerd

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

For a sister

Winnifred Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Garnet Mathilda

For a brother

Granville Valentine Ellsworth Orval Buster Sol Omer Ferdinand

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