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Algis

Boys' name

Short form of Algimantas

Algis has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1954, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Algis, 1963

1 in 660,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Algis: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Algimantas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Algis means

Algis is a short form of Algimantas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Algis is used in Lithuanian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Algis → Algimantas. The family’s meaning is “salary + property”, recorded in Lithuanian with the source elements algà and mantà.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Algimantas.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Algis is pronounced [²ˈɐlʲˑɡʲɪs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Algis between 1950 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1954; its best national rank was #2,453 in 1954.

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 Algis?

Algis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963
1 in 660,000
6 of 3,958,455 births
Among boys only
1 in 339,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1963
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,300 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Algis 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 1963 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 457,300 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Algis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Algiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Algis was born before 1956 — so the typical Algis is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
74.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 74.0% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Algis 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 1954 (11)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,453
1954

Spellings of Algis

Algis is not the most common spelling — Luis is, with 42.4% against Algis's 0.02%.

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.

Algis around the world

Where Algis 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.

  • South Australia
    1951–1961
    #561
    in 1961

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Algis 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
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Best rank ever
#2,453
1954
Peak year
1954
11 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Algis

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

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Sibling names for Algis

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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